Eyes, nose and using the toilet, sentence 9
Picking your nose spreads germs and can cause nosebleeds, so you use a tissue and wash your hands.
Who acts: Picking, you · What happens: pick, spread, cause, use, wash · To what, where: nose, germs, nosebleeds, tissue, 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 (Picking, you), 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 | Picking | pick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 spreads | csubj |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 nose | nmod:poss |
| 3 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picking | obj |
| 4 | spreads | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spreads | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cause | cc |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 cause | aux |
| 8 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 spreads | conj |
| 9 | nosebleeds | nosebleed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cause | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 use | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 use | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 use | nsubj |
| 13 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 spreads | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tissue | det |
| 15 | tissue | tissue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 use | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wash | cc |
| 17 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 use | conj |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hands | nmod:poss |
| 19 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 wash | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spreads | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick | gerund | your nose | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient | |||||
| 2 | spread | present | Picking | germs | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location germ=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cause | can | Picking not said here | nosebleeds | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition nosebleed=Patient | ||||
| 4 | use | present | you | a tissue | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tissue=Patient | ||||
| 5 | wash | infinitive | you not said here | your hands | 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:9.
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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