Bites, stings and things you find on the ground, sentence 1
Mosquitoes come out in the evening; covering your arms and legs and using repellent keeps them off.
Who acts: Mosquitoes, covering · What happens: come out, cover, use, keep off · To what, where: arms, repellent
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bites, stings and things you find on the ground» 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 (Mosquitoes, covering), 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 | Mosquitoes | mosquito | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 come | nsubj |
| 2 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 come | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 evening | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 evening | det |
| 6 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 come | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 keeps | punct |
| 8 | covering | cover | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 keeps | csubj |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 arms | nmod:poss |
| 10 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 covering | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 legs | cc |
| 12 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 arms | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 using | cc |
| 14 | using | use | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 covering | conj |
| 15 | repellent | repellent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 using | obj |
| 16 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 come | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 keeps | obj |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 keeps | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 come | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | present | Mosquitoes | evening | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | cover | gerund | your arms and legs | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme arm=Destination | |||||
| 3 | use | gerund | repellent | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent repellent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | keep off | present | covering | arms = arm | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:everyday:238-bites-and-things-you-find.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): no change. 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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