The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups and poo, sentence 9
Green snot does not always mean bacteria: the colour comes from a substance in white blood cells fighting germs.
Who acts: Green snot, colour, white blood cells · What happens: not mean, come, fight · To what, where: bacteria, substance, 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 (Green snot, colour, white blood cells), 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 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 snot | amod |
| 2 | snot | snot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mean | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mean | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 mean | advmod |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 mean | advmod |
| 6 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | bacteria | bacteria | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mean | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 mean | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 colour | det |
| 10 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 comes | nsubj |
| 11 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 mean | parataxis |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 substance | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 substance | det |
| 14 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 comes | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 cells | case |
| 16 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cells | amod |
| 17 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cells | compound |
| 18 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 substance | nmod |
| 19 | fighting | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 cells | acl |
| 20 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fighting | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 mean | 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 | not mean | present · do-support | Green snot | bacteria | always property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bacteria=Topic | |||
| 2 | come | present | the colour | a substance in white blood cells | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from substance=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | fight | gerund | white blood cells not said here | germs | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Co-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:364-the-body-s-rough-side-burps-farts-snot-sneezes-hiccups-and-poo.lesson:9.
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. 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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