Germs, sneezes and dressing for the weather, sentence 10
The five-second rule is a myth: food that falls on the floor picks up germs at once.
Who acts: second rule, food · What happens: be, fall, pick up · To what, where: myth, floor, germs
This is a sentence of the lesson «Germs, sneezes and dressing for the weather» 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 (second rule, food), 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 | 5 rule | det |
| 2 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 second | nummod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 five | punct |
| 4 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 rule | amod |
| 5 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 myth | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 myth | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 myth | det |
| 8 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 food | punct |
| 10 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 picks | nsubj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 falls | nsubj |
| 12 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 food | acl:relcl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 floor | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 floor | det |
| 15 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 falls | obl |
| 16 | picks | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 myth | parataxis |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 picks | compound:prt |
| 18 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 picks | obj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 once | case |
| 20 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 picks | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 myth | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the second rule | a myth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall | present | food | the floor | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on floor=Location | ||||
| 3 | pick up | present | food | germs | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Topic |
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:079-germs-sneezes-and-dressing-for-the-weather.lesson:10.
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): R5-strong ×1, 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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