Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn, sentence 7

People shed tens of thousands of tiny dead skin flakes every minute, which become part of house dust, and tiny dust mites eat them.

Who acts: People, tiny dead skin flakes, tiny dust mites · What happens: shed, become, eat · To what, where: tens, part

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 (People, tiny dead skin flakes, tiny dust mites), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shed	nsubj
2	shed	shed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tens	ten	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shed	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 thousands	case
5	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 tens	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 flakes	case
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 flakes	amod
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 flakes	amod
9	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flakes	compound
10	flakes	flake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thousands	nmod
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 minute	det
12	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shed	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 become	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 become	nsubj
15	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 flakes	acl:relcl
16	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 become	xcomp
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 dust	case
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dust	compound
19	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 part	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 eat	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 eat	cc
22	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 mites	amod
23	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 mites	compound
24	mites	mite	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 eat	nsubj
25	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 shed	conj
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 eat	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 shed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	shed	past	People	tens of thousands of tiny dead skin flakes	minute	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ten=Source
2	become	present	tiny dead skin flakes	part of house dust		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	eat	present	tiny dust mites	tens = ten		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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:7.

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 ×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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