The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups and poo, sentence 10

A bogey is dried mucus around trapped dust; picking spreads germs to your fingers and on to others and can make the nose bleed.

Who acts: picking, nose · What happens: dry, trap, spread, make, bleed · To what, where: bogey, germs

This is a sentence of the lesson «The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups and poo» 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 (picking, nose), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bogey	det
2	bogey	bogey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dried	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dried	aux:pass
4	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	mucus	mucus	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dried	obj
6	around	around	ADP	_	8 dust	case
7	trapped	trap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 dust	amod
8	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mucus	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 germs	punct
10	picking	picking	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spreads	nsubj
11	spreads	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dried	parataxis
12	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 spreads	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 fingers	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 fingers	nmod:poss
15	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 spreads	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 others	cc
17	on	on	ADV	_	19 others	advmod
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 others	case
19	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fingers	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 make	cc
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 make	aux
22	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 spreads	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 nose	det
24	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bleed	nsubj
25	bleed	bleed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 make	xcomp
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dried	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	dry	present · passive		a bogey		tree rules
2	trap	participle				vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	spread	present	picking	germs	to your fingers and others	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location germ=Theme
4	make	can	picking not said here			tree rules
5	bleed	infinitive	the nose			vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:364-the-body-s-rough-side-burps-farts-snot-sneezes-hiccups-and-poo.lesson:10.

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): 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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