Wild birds, bats and germs from animals, sentence 3
After walking in long grass or woods, check your skin for ticks; if you find one, an adult removes it with fine tweezers, pulling it gently straight out, close to the skin.
Who acts: you, adult · What happens: walk, check, find, remove, pull · To what, where: long grass, skin, one
This is a sentence of the lesson «Wild birds, bats and germs from animals» 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 (you, adult), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 walking | mark |
| 2 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 check | advcl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 grass | case |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grass | amod |
| 5 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walking | obl |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 woods | cc |
| 7 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grass | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 walking | punct |
| 9 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 skin | nmod:poss |
| 11 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 check | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 ticks | case |
| 13 | ticks | tick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 check | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 removes | punct |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 find | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 find | nsubj |
| 17 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 removes | advcl |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 find | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 find | punct |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 adult | det |
| 21 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 removes | nsubj |
| 22 | removes | remove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 check | parataxis |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 removes | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 tweezers | case |
| 25 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 tweezers | amod |
| 26 | tweezers | tweezer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 removes | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 pulling | punct |
| 28 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 removes | advcl |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 pulling | obj |
| 30 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 28 pulling | advmod |
| 31 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 32 out | advmod |
| 32 | out | out | ADV | _ | 28 pulling | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 close | punct |
| 34 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 pulling | conj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 skin | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 skin | det |
| 37 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 close | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 check | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | gerund | you not said here | long grass or woods | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grass=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | check | imperative | you not said here | your skin | for ticks | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent skin=Theme for tick=Attribute | |||
| 3 | find a condition, not said to happen | present | you | one | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | ||||
| 4 | remove | present | a adult | skin | with fine tweezers | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 5 | pull | gerund | a adult not said here | skin | gently, out property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:029-germs-from-animals.lesson:3.
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): R5-strong ×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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