Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and friends, sentence 12

Threadworms are tiny white worms in the gut that come out at night to lay eggs, causing an itchy bottom; the whole family is treated.

Who acts: Threadworms, tiny white worms · What happens: be, come out, lay, cause, treat · To what, where: tiny white worms, gut, eggs, itchy bottom, whole family

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 (Threadworms, tiny white worms), 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	Threadworms	threadworm	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 worms	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 worms	cop
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 worms	amod
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 worms	amod
5	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 gut	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gut	det
8	gut	gut	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 worms	nmod
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 come	nsubj
10	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 worms	acl:relcl
11	out	out	ADV	_	10 come	advmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 night	case
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 lay	mark
15	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 come	advcl
16	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 lay	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 causing	punct
18	causing	cause	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 lay	advcl
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 bottom	det
20	itchy	itchy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bottom	amod
21	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 causing	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 treated	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 family	det
24	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 family	amod
25	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 treated	nsubj:pass
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 treated	aux:pass
27	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 worms	parataxis
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 worms	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Threadworms	tiny white worms	the gut			tree rules
2	come out	present	tiny white worms			night	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	lay	to-infinitive	tiny white worms not said here	eggs				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
4	cause	gerund	tiny white worms not said here	a itchy bottom				vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition bottom=Patient
5	treat	present · passive		the whole family				vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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:12.

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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