Staying healthy: germs, vaccines, sleep, food and exercise, sentence 1
Singing Happy Birthday twice while you wash with soap is not a silly rule: it gives the soap about 20 seconds to grab the grease where germs hide and let the water rinse them away.
Who acts: you, Singing, rule, germs, water · What happens: sing, wash, not be, give, grab, hide · To what, where: Happy Birthday, silly rule, soap, grease, germs
This is a sentence of the lesson «Staying healthy: germs, vaccines, sleep, food and exercise» 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 (you, Singing, rule, germs), 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 | Singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 rule | csubj |
| 2 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Birthday | amod |
| 3 | Birthday | birthday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Singing | obj |
| 4 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 1 Singing | advmod |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 wash | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 wash | nsubj |
| 7 | wash | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Singing | advcl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 soap | case |
| 9 | soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wash | obl |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 rule | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 rule | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 rule | det |
| 13 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rule | amod |
| 14 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 gives | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gives | nsubj |
| 17 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 rule | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 soap | det |
| 19 | soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gives | iobj |
| 20 | about | about | ADV | _ | 21 20 | advmod |
| 21 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 seconds | nummod |
| 22 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 gives | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 grab | mark |
| 24 | grab | grab | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 gives | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 grease | det |
| 26 | grease | grease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 grab | obj |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 hide | advmod |
| 28 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 hide | nsubj |
| 29 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 grease | acl:relcl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 let | cc |
| 31 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 grab | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 water | det |
| 33 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 rinse | nsubj |
| 34 | rinse | rinse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 let | xcomp |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 rinse | obj |
| 36 | away | away | ADV | _ | 34 rinse | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 rule | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | gerund | Happy Birthday | twice property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location birthday=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wash | present | you | with soap | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with soap=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | not is a | present | Singing | a silly rule | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give | present | rule | the soap | second | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soap=Theme | |||
| 5 | grab | to-infinitive | rule not said here | the grease | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grease=Theme | ||||
| 6 | hide | present | germs | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | let | infinitive | rule not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | rinse away | infinitive | the water | germs = germ | away property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=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:072-staying-healthy.lesson:1.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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