Doctors, cuts and grazes, sentence 2
A scab is the body's own plaster: it protects the new skin underneath, so it is best to leave it alone.
Who acts: scab · What happens: be, protect, leave · To what, where: own plaster, new skin, skin
This is a sentence of the lesson «Doctors, cuts and grazes» 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 (scab), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 scab | det |
| 2 | scab | scab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 plaster | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 plaster | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 body | det |
| 5 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 plaster | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 body | case |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 plaster | amod |
| 8 | plaster | plaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 protects | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 protects | nsubj |
| 11 | protects | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 plaster | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 skin | det |
| 13 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 skin | amod |
| 14 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 protects | obj |
| 15 | underneath | underneath | ADV | _ | 14 skin | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 best | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 best | advmod |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 best | expl |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 best | cop |
| 20 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 protects | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 leave | mark |
| 22 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 best | csubj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 leave | obj |
| 24 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 22 leave | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 plaster | 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 | a scab | the body's own plaster | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | protect | present | scab | the new skin | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | is | present | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | leave | to-infinitive | skin | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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:083-doctors-cuts-and-grazes.lesson:2.
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): R7-rel-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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