Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma, sentence 19
A splinter left in the skin can let germs in and cause an infection.
Who acts: splinter · What happens: leave, let in, cause · To what, where: splinter, skin, germs, infection
This is a sentence of the lesson «Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma» 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 (splinter), 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 splinter | det |
| 2 | splinter | splinter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 let | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 splinter | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 skin | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 skin | det |
| 6 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obl |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 let | aux |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 let | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 let | compound:prt |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cause | cc |
| 12 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | conj |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 infection | det |
| 14 | infection | infection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cause | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 let | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | participle | a splinter not said here | in the skin result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in skin=Result | ||||
| 2 | let in | can | a splinter | germs | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cause | infinitive | a splinter not said here | a infection | 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:085-splinters-stings-and-allergies.lesson:19.
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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