Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn, sentence 8

The outer layer of skin replaces itself about every four weeks, bit by bit, while a snake sheds its whole skin in one go.

Who acts: outer layer, snake · What happens: replace, shed · To what, where: skin, whole skin, one go

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 (outer layer, snake), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 layer	det
2	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 layer	amod
3	layer	layer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 replaces	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 skin	case
5	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 layer	nmod
6	replaces	replace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 replaces	obj
8	about	about	ADV	_	10 four	advmod
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 weeks	det
10	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 weeks	nummod
11	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 replaces	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bit	punct
13	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 replaces	obl
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 bit	case
15	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bit	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sheds	punct
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 sheds	mark
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 snake	det
19	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sheds	nsubj
20	sheds	shed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 replaces	advcl
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 skin	nmod:poss
22	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 skin	amod
23	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sheds	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 go	case
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 go	nummod
26	go	go	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sheds	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 replaces	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	replace	present	the outer layer of skin	skin			week	bit by bit obl	vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme itself=Co-Theme
2	shed	present	a snake	skin's whole skin		one go			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skin=Source

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:8.

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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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