Carnivorous and strange plants, sentence 17
A stinging nettle's hairs have glass-like tips that snap off and inject an itchy mix of chemicals into the skin; rubbing a dock leaf on the sting mostly just cools and distracts.
Who acts: hairs, like tips · What happens: have, snap off, inject, rub, cool, distract · To what, where: like tips, itchy mix, skin, dock leaf, sting
This is a sentence of the lesson «Carnivorous and strange plants» 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 (hairs, like tips), 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 | 3 nettle | det |
| 2 | stinging | stinging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nettle | compound |
| 3 | nettle | nettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hairs | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 nettle | case |
| 5 | hairs | hair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 like | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 glass | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tips | amod |
| 10 | tips | tip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | obj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 snap | nsubj |
| 12 | snap | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 tips | acl:relcl |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 snap | compound:prt |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 inject | cc |
| 15 | inject | inject | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 snap | conj |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 mix | det |
| 17 | itchy | itchy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 mix | amod |
| 18 | mix | mix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 inject | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 chemicals | case |
| 20 | chemicals | chemical | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 mix | nmod |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 skin | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 skin | det |
| 23 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 inject | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 rubbing | punct |
| 25 | rubbing | rub | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 cools | nsubj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 leaf | det |
| 27 | dock | dock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 leaf | compound |
| 28 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rubbing | obj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 sting | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sting | det |
| 31 | sting | sting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rubbing | obl |
| 32 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 34 cools | advmod |
| 33 | just | just | ADV | _ | 34 cools | advmod |
| 34 | cools | cool | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 have | parataxis |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 distracts | cc |
| 36 | distracts | distract | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 cools | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a stinging nettle's hairs | like tips | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tip=Patient | ||||
| 2 | snap off | present | like tips | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | inject | present | like tips not said here | a itchy mix of chemicals | the skin | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mix=Patient | |||
| 4 | rub | gerund | a dock leaf | the sting | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme on sting=Destination | ||||
| 5 | cool | present | mostly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | distract | present | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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:061-carnivorous-and-strange-plants.lesson:17.
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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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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