Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters, sentence 4

The scab is the body's own plaster, so leave it alone; red, hot, puffy skin with pus means germs got in and someone should look at it.

Who acts: scab, red hot puffy skin, germs, someone · What happens: be, leave, mean, get in, look · To what, where: own plaster, scab · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters» 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 (scab, red hot puffy skin, germs, someone), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def 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 leave	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 leave	advmod
11	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 plaster	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 leave	obj
13	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 leave	xcomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 skin	punct
15	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 skin	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 red	punct
17	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 skin	amod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hot	punct
19	puffy	puffy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 skin	amod
20	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 means	nsubj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 pus	case
22	pus	pus	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 skin	nmod
23	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 plaster	parataxis
24	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 got	nsubj
25	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 means	ccomp
26	in	in	ADV	_	25 got	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 look	cc
28	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	30 look	nsubj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 look	aux
30	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 got	conj
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 look	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 plaster	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the scab	the body's own plaster		tree rules
2	leave	infinitive		scab	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	mean	present	red hot puffy skin with pus			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	get in	past	germs			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	look	should	someone		at skin	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at 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:medicine:004-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters.lesson:4.

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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