Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn, sentence 4
Skin is the body's largest organ; an adult's skin would cover roughly two square metres if laid out flat.
Who acts: Skin · What happens: be, cover, lay out · To what, where: largest organ, two square metres
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), 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 | 7 organ | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 organ | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 body | det |
| 4 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 organ | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 body | case |
| 6 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 organ | amod |
| 7 | organ | organ | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 cover | punct |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 adult | det |
| 10 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 skin | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 adult | case |
| 12 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cover | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 cover | aux |
| 14 | cover | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 organ | parataxis |
| 15 | roughly | roughly | ADV | _ | 16 two | advmod |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 metres | nummod |
| 17 | square | square | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 metres | amod |
| 18 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cover | obj |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 laid | mark |
| 20 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 cover | advcl |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 laid | compound:prt |
| 22 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 laid | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 organ | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Skin | the body's largest organ | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cover | would | a adult's skin | two square metres | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme metre=Destination | ||||
| 3 | lay out a condition, not said to happen | participle | a adult's skin not said here | flat property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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:4.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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