Changing-room germs, sentence 1
Lucas walks barefoot across the wet floor every week and ends up with verrucas on three toes, «Bro, how is this even fair?»; a pair of flip-flops would have kept his feet off the floor where the verruca virus waits.
Who acts: Lucas, this, pair, verruca virus · What happens: walk, end up, be, keep, wait · To what, where: wet floor, feet
This is a sentence of the lesson «Changing-room germs» 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 (Lucas, this, pair, verruca virus), 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 | Lucas | Lucas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 walks | nsubj |
| 2 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | barefoot | barefoot | ADV | _ | 2 walks | advmod |
| 4 | across | across | ADP | _ | 7 floor | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 floor | det |
| 6 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 floor | amod |
| 7 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walks | obl |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 week | det |
| 9 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walks | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ends | cc |
| 11 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 walks | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 ends | compound:prt |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 verrucas | case |
| 14 | verrucas | verruca | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ends | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 toes | case |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 toes | nummod |
| 17 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 verrucas | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Bro | punct |
| 19 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 20 Bro | punct |
| 20 | Bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 verrucas | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fair | punct |
| 22 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 fair | advmod |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 fair | cop |
| 24 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 fair | nsubj |
| 25 | even | even | ADV | _ | 26 fair | advmod |
| 26 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 walks | conj |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 walks | punct |
| 28 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 2 walks | punct |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 kept | punct |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 pair | det |
| 31 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 kept | nsubj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 flops | case |
| 33 | flip | flip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 flops | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 flip | punct |
| 35 | flops | flop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 pair | nmod |
| 36 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 kept | aux |
| 37 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 kept | aux |
| 38 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 walks | parataxis |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 feet | nmod:poss |
| 40 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 kept | obj |
| 41 | off | off | ADP | _ | 43 floor | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 floor | det |
| 43 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 kept | obl |
| 44 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 48 waits | advmod |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 virus | det |
| 46 | verruca | verruca | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 virus | compound |
| 47 | virus | virus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 waits | nsubj |
| 48 | waits | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 floor | acl:relcl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walks | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present | Lucas | the wet floor | week | barefoot property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across floor=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | end up | present | Lucas not said here | with verrucas on three toes and Bro | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | this | fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | keep | would · perfect | a pair of flip flops | pair's feet | off the floor | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme | |||
| 5 | wait | present | the verruca virus | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: 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:059-changing-room-germs.lesson:1.
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): R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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