--- title: Skin is the biggest organ, about 2 square metres on an adult; sunbur… — The human body deeper: bones, muscles and skin · tree and pragmatics description: Skin is the biggest organ, about 2 square metres on an adult; sunburn damages skin cells, which the body then sheds, and sun cream and a hat protect skin from harmful ultraviolet rays. Who acts: Skin, sunburn, body, sun cream. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Skin, sunburn, body, sun cream), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:263-human-body-deeper-bones-muscles-and-skin.lesson:14 # text = Skin is the biggest organ, about 2 square metres on an adult; sunburn damages skin cells, which the body then sheds, and sun cream and a hat protect skin from harmful ultraviolet rays. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 263-human-body-deeper-bones-muscles-and-skin.lesson # annotation = 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 5 amod _ _ 5 organ organ NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 about about ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 2 2 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 9 square square NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 15 sunburn sunburn NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 damages damage VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 17 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 obj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 then then ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 sheds shed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 27 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 cream cream NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 hat hat NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 32 protect protect VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 33 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 34 from from ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 harmful harmful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 36 ultraviolet ultraviolet NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 rays ray NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Skin | the biggest organ | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **damage** | present | sunburn | skin cells | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Patient | | 3 | **shed** | present | the body | skin cells | | | then | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location which=Source | | 4 | **protect** | present | sun cream and a hat | skin | | | | from harmful ultraviolet rays | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent skin=Beneficiary from ray=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:263-human-body-deeper-bones-muscles-and-skin.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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