Staying healthy: germs, vaccines, sleep, food and exercise, sentence 8
When you graze your knee, platelets plug the wound and threads of fibrin make a net that dries into a scab, a natural plaster under which new skin grows; picking it can let germs in and leave a scar.
Who acts: you, platelets, threads, net, new skin, picking · What happens: graze, plug, make, dry, grow, pick · To what, where: knee, wound, net, scab, natural plaster, skin
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, platelets, threads, net), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 graze | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 graze | nsubj |
| 3 | graze | graze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 plug | advcl |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 knee | nmod:poss |
| 5 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 graze | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 graze | punct |
| 7 | platelets | platelet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 plug | nsubj |
| 8 | plug | plug | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wound | det |
| 10 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 plug | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 make | cc |
| 12 | threads | thread | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 make | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 fibrin | case |
| 14 | fibrin | fibrin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 threads | nmod |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 plug | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 net | det |
| 17 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 dries | nsubj |
| 19 | dries | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 net | acl:relcl |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 scab | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 scab | det |
| 22 | scab | scab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dries | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 plaster | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 plaster | det |
| 25 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 plaster | amod |
| 26 | plaster | plaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 scab | appos |
| 27 | under | under | ADP | _ | 28 which | case |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 grows | obl |
| 29 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 skin | amod |
| 30 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 grows | nsubj |
| 31 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 plaster | acl:relcl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 let | punct |
| 33 | picking | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 let | csubj |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 picking | obj |
| 35 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 let | aux |
| 36 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 plug | parataxis |
| 37 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 let | obj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 let | compound:prt |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 leave | cc |
| 40 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 let | conj |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 scar | det |
| 42 | scar | scar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 leave | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 plug | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | graze | present | you | your knee | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knee=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | plug | present | platelets | the wound | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wound=Destination | ||||
| 3 | make | present | threads of fibrin | a net | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset net=Product | ||||
| 4 | dry | present | a net | a scab | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | grow | present | new skin | a natural plaster | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under which=Location | ||||
| 6 | pick | gerund | skin | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 7 | let in | can | picking | germs | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme | ||||
| 8 | leave | infinitive | picking not said here | a scar | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scar=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:8.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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