Staying healthy: germs, vaccines, sleep, food and exercise, sentence 5

A sneeze shoots droplets that can travel a few metres, and sneezing into the elbow keeps germs off the hands that touch pencils, door handles and friends.

Who acts: sneeze, droplets, sneezing, hands · What happens: shoot, travel, sneeze, keep, touch · To what, where: droplets, few metres, elbow, germs, pencils

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 (sneeze, droplets, sneezing, hands), 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 sneeze	det
2	sneeze	sneeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shoots	nsubj
3	shoots	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	droplets	droplet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shoots	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 travel	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 travel	aux
7	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 droplets	acl:relcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 metres	det
9	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 metres	amod
10	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 travel	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 keeps	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 keeps	cc
13	sneezing	sneeze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 keeps	csubj
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 elbow	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 elbow	det
16	elbow	elbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sneezing	obl
17	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shoots	conj
18	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 keeps	obj
19	off	off	ADP	_	21 hands	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hands	det
21	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 keeps	obl
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 touch	nsubj
23	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 hands	acl:relcl
24	pencils	pencil	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 touch	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 handles	punct
26	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 handles	compound
27	handles	handle	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 pencils	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 friends	cc
29	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 pencils	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shoots	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	shoot	present	a sneeze	droplets			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent droplet=Theme
2	travel	can	droplets	a few metres			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sneeze	gerund			the elbow		vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	keep	present	sneezing	germs		off the hands	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme
5	touch	present	the hands	pencils and door handles and friends			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pencil=Co-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:072-staying-healthy.lesson:5.

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. 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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