Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn, sentence 5

Skin keeps water in and germs out and helps keep your temperature right; it is thinnest on the eyelids and thickest on the soles of the feet.

Who acts: Skin · What happens: keep, help, be · To what, where: water, temperature, eyelids, soles

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	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obj
4	in	in	ADV	_	3 water	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 germs	cc
6	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 water	conj
7	out	out	ADV	_	6 germs	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 helps	cc
9	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 keeps	conj
10	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 helps	xcomp
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 temperature	nmod:poss
12	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 keep	obj
13	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 keep	xcomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 keeps	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 thinnest	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 thinnest	cop
17	thinnest	thin	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 keeps	parataxis
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 eyelids	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 eyelids	det
20	eyelids	eyelid	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 thinnest	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 thickest	cc
22	thickest	thick	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 thinnest	conj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 soles	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 soles	det
25	soles	sole	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 thickest	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 feet	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 feet	det
28	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 soles	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 keeps	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	present	Skin	water and germs			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
2	help	present	Skin not said here				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	keep	infinitive	Skin not said here	your temperature		right property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temperature=Theme
4	is	present	skin		the eyelids	thin property	tree rules
5	be		skin not said here		the soles of the feet		tree rules

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:5.

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 ×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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