Cells, bones and muscles, sentence 7

A cut heals because skin cells around it divide and make new cells that crawl across the wound, while a scab protects it from germs.

Who acts: cut, skin cells, new cells, scab · What happens: heal, divide, make, crawl, protect · To what, where: new cells, wound, cut

This is a sentence of the lesson «Cells, bones and muscles» 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 (cut, skin cells, new cells, scab), 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 cut	det
2	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heals	nsubj
3	heals	heal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	because	because	SCONJ	ExtPos=ADP	9 divide	mark
5	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cells	compound
6	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 divide	nsubj
7	around	around	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cells	nmod
9	divide	divide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 heals	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 make	cc
11	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 divide	conj
12	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cells	amod
13	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 make	obj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 crawl	nsubj
15	crawl	crawl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 cells	acl:relcl
16	across	across	ADP	_	18 wound	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wound	det
18	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 crawl	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 protects	punct
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 protects	mark
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 scab	det
22	scab	scab	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 protects	nsubj
23	protects	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 heals	advcl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 protects	obj
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 germs	case
26	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 protects	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heals	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	heal	present	a cut				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	divide	present	skin cells around cut				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	make	present	skin cells around cut not said here	new cells			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cell=Product
4	crawl	present	new cells		the wound		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across wound=Trajectory
5	protect	present	a scab	cut		from germs	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary from germ=Theme

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:064-cells-bones-and-muscles.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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