Eyes, nose and using the toilet, sentence 1

The nose and the bottom are places where many germs live, so we use tissues and toilet paper, throw them away and wash our hands afterwards.

Who acts: nose, many germs, we · What happens: be, live, use, throw away, wash · To what, where: places, tissues, hands

This is a sentence of the lesson «Eyes, nose and using the toilet» 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 (nose, many germs, we), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 nose	det
2	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 places	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bottom	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bottom	det
5	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nose	conj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 places	cop
7	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 live	advmod
9	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 germs	amod
10	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 live	nsubj
11	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 places	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 use	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 use	advmod
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 use	nsubj
15	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 places	parataxis
16	tissues	tissue	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 use	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 paper	cc
18	toilet	toilet	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 paper	compound
19	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tissues	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 throw	punct
21	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 use	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 throw	obj
23	away	away	ADV	_	21 throw	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 wash	cc
25	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 throw	conj
26	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hands	nmod:poss
27	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 wash	obj
28	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	25 wash	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 places	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the nose and the bottom	places		tree rules
2	live	present	many germs			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	use	present	we	tissues and toilet paper		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tissue=Patient
4	throw away	present	we not said here	tissues = tissue	away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	wash	present	we not said here	our hands	afterwards property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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:078-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet.lesson:1.

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 ×3, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. 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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