The night sky and outdoor myths, sentence 21

Touching a toad does not give you warts, because warts are caused by a human virus, but wash your hands after touching any animal.

Who acts: Touching, human virus · What happens: touch, not give, cause, wash · To what, where: toad, warts, you, hands, animal

This is a sentence of the lesson «The night sky and outdoor myths» 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 (Touching, human virus), 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	Touching	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 give	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 toad	det
3	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Touching	obj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 give	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 give	advmod
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 give	iobj
8	warts	wart	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 give	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 caused	punct
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 caused	mark
11	warts	wart	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 caused	nsubj:pass
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 caused	aux:pass
13	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 give	advcl
14	by	by	ADP	_	17 virus	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 virus	det
16	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 virus	amod
17	virus	virus	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 caused	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wash	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 wash	cc
20	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 give	conj
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hands	nmod:poss
22	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 wash	obj
23	after	after	SCONJ	_	24 touching	mark
24	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 wash	advcl
25	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	26 animal	det
26	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 touching	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 give	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	touch	gerund		a toad		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme toad=Co-Theme
2	not give	present · do-support	Touching	warts	you	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient wart=Theme
3	cause	present · passive	a human virus	warts		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient
4	wash	infinitive	Touching not said here	your hands		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
5	touch	gerund	Touching not said here	any animal		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme animal=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:everyday:240-night-sky-and-outdoor-myths.lesson:21.

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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