Changing-room germs, sentence 4

A verruca is a wart on the foot caused by a virus; the NHS says you can still swim if you cover it with a waterproof plaster or a verruca sock.

Who acts: verruca, NHS, you · What happens: be, cause, say, swim, cover · To what, where: wart, foot, NHS · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (verruca, NHS, you), 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	16 says	parataxis
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	_	9 caused	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 NHS	det
15	NHS	NHS	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 says	nsubj
16	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 swim	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 swim	aux
19	still	still	ADV	_	20 swim	advmod
20	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 says	ccomp
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 cover	mark
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 cover	nsubj
23	cover	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 swim	advcl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 cover	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 plaster	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 plaster	det
27	waterproof	waterproof	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 plaster	amod
28	plaster	plaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cover	obl
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 sock	cc
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 sock	det
31	verruca	verruca	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sock	compound
32	sock	sock	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 plaster	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wart	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	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	say speech: assert	present	the NHS					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	swim	can	you			still		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	cover a condition, not said to happen	present	you	NHS			with a waterproof plaster or a verruca sock	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with plaster=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: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): R6-punct-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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