Hair, nails and ears, sentence 22
Biting nails and picking the skin around them can let germs in and cause painful infections.
Who acts: Biting · What happens: bite, pick, let in, cause · To what, where: nails, skin, germs, painful infections
This is a sentence of the lesson «Hair, nails and ears» 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 | VerbForm=Ger | 10 let | csubj |
| 2 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Biting | obj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 picking | cc |
| 4 | picking | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Biting | conj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 skin | det |
| 6 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 picking | obj |
| 7 | around | around | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 picking | obl |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 let | aux |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 let | compound:prt |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cause | cc |
| 14 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | conj |
| 15 | painful | painful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 infections | amod |
| 16 | infections | infection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cause | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | 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 | pick | gerund | the skin | around nails = nail | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient | ||||
| 3 | let in | can | Biting | germs | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cause | infinitive | Biting not said here | painful infections | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition infection=Patient |
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:077-hair-nails-and-ears.lesson:22.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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