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title: Your skin is an organ, like your heart or lungs, and it is the bigge… — Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and su… · tree and pragmatics
description: Your skin is an organ, like your heart or lungs, and it is the biggest one you have: a waterproof, germ-proof, self-repairing coat that also helps keep your temperature right. Who acts: skin, you, waterproof proof repairing coat. A sentence of the lesson «Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles an
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# Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn, sentence 0

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Your skin is an organ, like your heart or lungs, and it is the biggest one you have: a waterproof, germ-proof, self-repairing coat that also helps keep your temperature right.

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**Who acts:** skin, you, waterproof proof repairing coat · **What happens:** be, have, repair, help, keep · **To what, where:** organ, biggest one, temperature

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn» of the biology 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 (skin, you, waterproof proof repairing coat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:353-skin-layers-sweat-goosebumps-freckles-and-sunburn.lesson:0
# text = Your skin is an organ, like your heart or lungs, and it is the biggest one you have: a waterproof, germ-proof, self-repairing coat that also helps keep your temperature right.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 353-skin-layers-sweat-goosebumps-freckles-and-sunburn.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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	organ	organ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:nmod
18	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=PRON:NN:Number=Sing|PronType=Ind
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	waterproof	waterproof	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	germ	germ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	_
27	proof	proof	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	_
31	repairing	repair	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	amod	_	_
32	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:conj
33	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
34	also	also	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
36	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
37	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	temperature	temperature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Your skin | a organ and the biggest one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | skin | the biggest one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | you | the biggest one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 4 | **repair** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **help** | present | waterproof proof repairing coat |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **keep** | infinitive | waterproof proof repairing coat *not said here* | your temperature |  |  |  | right *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temperature=Theme |

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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.

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**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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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