Wild birds, bats and germs from animals, sentence 5

For example, a boy who holds his pet tortoise and then eats crisps without washing his hands can swallow salmonella germs and get a bad stomach illness.

Who acts: boy · What happens: hold, eat, wash, swallow, get · To what, where: pet tortoise, crisps, hands, salmonella germs, bad stomach illness

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 (boy), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 example	case
2	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 swallow	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 example	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 swallow	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 holds	nsubj
7	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 boy	acl:relcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tortoise	nmod:poss
9	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tortoise	compound
10	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 holds	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 eats	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 eats	advmod
13	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 holds	conj
14	crisps	crisp	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 eats	obj
15	without	without	SCONJ	_	16 washing	mark
16	washing	wash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 eats	advcl
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hands	nmod:poss
18	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 washing	obj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 swallow	aux
20	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
21	salmonella	salmonella	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 germs	compound
22	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 swallow	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 get	cc
24	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 swallow	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 illness	det
26	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 illness	amod
27	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 illness	compound
28	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 get	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 swallow	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	a boy	boy's pet tortoise			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tortoise=Theme
2	eat	present	a boy not said here	crisps	then		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crisp=Patient
3	wash	gerund	a boy not said here	boy's hands			vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
4	swallow	can	a boy	salmonella germs		for example	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Patient
5	get	infinitive	a boy not said here	a bad stomach illness			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer illness=Stimulus

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:5.

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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