Plants that sting, scratch and poison, sentence 12
If a plant makes your skin red and itchy, wash it with soap and water, try not to scratch, and tell a grown-up.
Who acts: plant, you · What happens: make, wash, try, not scratch, tell · To what, where: skin, grown · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Plants that sting, scratch and poison» of the everyday 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 (plant, you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 makes | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 plant | det |
| 3 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | nsubj |
| 4 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 wash | advcl |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 skin | nmod:poss |
| 6 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | obj |
| 7 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 makes | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 itchy | cc |
| 9 | itchy | itchy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 red | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 makes | punct |
| 11 | wash | wash | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wash | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 soap | case |
| 14 | soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wash | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 water | cc |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 soap | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 try | punct |
| 18 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 wash | conj |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 scratch | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 scratch | mark |
| 21 | scratch | scratch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 try | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 tell | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 tell | cc |
| 24 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 try | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 up | det |
| 26 | grown | grown-up | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tell | obj |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 grown | punct |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 grown | compound |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 wash | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make a condition, not said to happen | present | a plant | your skin | red property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset skin=Product | |||
| 2 | wash | imperative | you not said here | skin | with soap and water | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with soap=Instrument | |||
| 3 | try | infinitive | you not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | not scratch not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | grown | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grown-up=Recipient |
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:everyday:237-plants-that-sting-and-poison.lesson:12.
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 ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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