Living with friction: oil, wheels and grip, sentence 14

Fish are slippery because their skin is covered in slime, which also protects them from germs, so wet your hands before holding one.

Who acts: Fish, slime · What happens: be, cover, protect, hold · To what, where: skin, Fish, hands, one

This is a sentence of the lesson «Living with friction: oil, wheels and grip» of the physics 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 (Fish, slime), 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	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 slippery	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 slippery	cop
3	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 covered	mark
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 skin	nmod:poss
6	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 covered	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 covered	aux:pass
8	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 slippery	advcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 slime	case
10	slime	slime	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 covered	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 protects	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 protects	nsubj
13	also	also	ADV	_	14 protects	advmod
14	protects	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 slime	acl:relcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 protects	obj
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 germs	case
17	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 protects	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wet	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 wet	advmod
20	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 slippery	conj
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hands	nmod:poss
22	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 wet	obj
23	before	before	SCONJ	_	24 holding	mark
24	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 wet	advcl
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 holding	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 slippery	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	present	Fish		slippery property	tree rules
2	cover	present · passive		Fish's skin	in slime	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in slime=Theme
3	protect	present	slime	Fish	from germs	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary from germ=Theme
4	be		Fish not said here	your hands		tree rules
5	hold	gerund	Fish not said here	one		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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:physics:007-living-with-friction.lesson:14.

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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