Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn, sentence 3
Skin also reacts to the world: it sweats to cool you, makes goosebumps when you are cold, makes extra brown melanin in the sun, and burns if the sun's ultraviolet light is too strong.
Who acts: Skin, you, ultraviolet light, sun · What happens: react, sweat, cool, make, be, burn · To what, where: you, goosebumps, extra brown melanin, sun
This is a sentence of the lesson «Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Skin, you, ultraviolet light, sun), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reacts | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 reacts | advmod |
| 3 | reacts | react | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 world | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 world | det |
| 6 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reacts | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 sweats | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sweats | nsubj |
| 9 | sweats | sweat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reacts | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 cool | mark |
| 11 | cool | cool | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sweats | advcl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 cool | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 makes | punct |
| 14 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sweats | conj |
| 15 | goosebumps | goosebump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 makes | obj |
| 16 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 19 cold | advmod |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 cold | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 cold | cop |
| 19 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 makes | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 makes | punct |
| 21 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reacts | conj |
| 22 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 melanin | amod |
| 23 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 melanin | amod |
| 24 | melanin | melanin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 makes | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 sun | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sun | det |
| 27 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 makes | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 burns | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 burns | cc |
| 30 | burns | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reacts | conj |
| 31 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 39 strong | mark |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 sun | det |
| 33 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 light | nmod:poss |
| 34 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 33 sun | case |
| 35 | ultraviolet | ultraviolet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 light | amod |
| 36 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 strong | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 strong | cop |
| 38 | too | too | ADV | _ | 39 strong | advmod |
| 39 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 burns | advcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reacts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | react | present | Skin | to the world | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to world=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sweat | present | skin | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cool | to-infinitive | skin not said here | you | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | present | skin not said here | goosebumps | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset goosebump=Product | ||||
| 5 | is | present | you | cold property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | make | present | Skin not said here | extra brown melanin | the sun | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset melanin=Product | |||
| 7 | burn | present | Skin not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | the sun's ultraviolet light | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | light | the sun | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:353-skin-layers-sweat-goosebumps-freckles-and-sunburn.lesson:3.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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