The dentist and washing your hands, sentence 15
Biting nails and sucking fingers move germs from the hands into the body.
Who acts: Biting · What happens: bite, suck, move · To what, where: nails, fingers, germs, hands
This is a sentence of the lesson «The dentist and washing your hands» 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 (Biting), 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 | Biting | bite | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 move | csubj |
| 2 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Biting | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sucking | cc |
| 4 | sucking | suck | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Biting | conj |
| 5 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sucking | obj |
| 6 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 move | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 hands | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hands | det |
| 10 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 germs | nmod |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 body | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 body | det |
| 13 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 move | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 move | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | gerund | nails | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Patient | |||||
| 2 | suck | gerund | fingers | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent finger=Source | |||||
| 3 | move | present | Biting | germs | the hands | into the body | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent germ=Theme into body=Source from hand=Trajectory |
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:075-the-dentist-and-washing-hands.lesson:15.
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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