Sun, cold and growing up, sentence 11

Never lick a frozen metal pole, because your tongue sticks to it and the skin tears.

Who acts: you, tongue · What happens: not lick, freeze, stick · To what, where: frozen metal pole, pole

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sun, cold and growing up» 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 (you, tongue), 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	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 lick	advmod
2	lick	lick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pole	det
4	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 pole	amod
5	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pole	compound
6	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lick	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sticks	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 sticks	mark
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tongue	nmod:poss
10	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sticks	nsubj
11	sticks	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lick	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sticks	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 tears	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tears	det
16	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tears	compound
17	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sticks	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lick	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not lick	imperative	you not said here	a frozen metal pole		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pole=Source
2	freeze	participle				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	stick	present	your tongue		pole	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to it=Co-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:086-sun-cold-and-growing-up.lesson:11.

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): 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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