Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and friends, sentence 10

A verruca is a wart on the foot caused by a virus, often picked up from wet floors; it has no roots to dig out; in the UK children can usually swim with it covered.

Who acts: verruca, children · What happens: be, cause, pick up, have, dig out, swim · To what, where: wart, foot, virus, wet floors, roots, UK

This is a sentence of the lesson «Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and friends» of the medicine 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 (verruca, children), 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 verruca	det
2	verruca	verruca	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wart	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wart	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 wart	det
5	wart	wart	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 foot	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 foot	det
8	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wart	nmod
9	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 foot	acl
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 virus	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 virus	det
12	virus	virus	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 caused	obl:agent
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 picked	punct
14	often	often	ADV	_	15 picked	advmod
15	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 virus	acl:relcl
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 picked	compound:prt
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 floors	case
18	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 floors	amod
19	floors	floor	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 picked	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 has	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 has	nsubj
22	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wart	parataxis
23	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	24 roots	det
24	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 has	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 dig	mark
26	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 roots	acl
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 dig	compound:prt
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 swim	punct
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 children	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 UK	det
31	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 swim	obl
32	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 swim	nsubj
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 swim	aux
34	usually	usually	ADV	_	35 swim	advmod
35	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wart	conj
36	with	with	SCONJ	_	38 covered	mark
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 covered	nsubj
38	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 swim	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wart	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a verruca	a wart	the foot		tree rules
2	cause	participle		the foot not said here			vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
3	pick up	participle		a virus not said here	wet floors	often property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.source how S»: agent=Agent from floor=Source
4	have	present	verruca	no roots			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Patient
5	dig out	to-infinitive	verruca not said here	no roots not said here			vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	swim	can	children	the UK		usually property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	cover	participle	verruca				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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:medicine:011-spots-and-itches-chickenpox-head-lice-and-friends.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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