--- title: Freckles are spots of extra melanin; sun makes them darker, they oft… — Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and su… · tree and pragmatics description: Freckles are spots of extra melanin; sun makes them darker, they often fade in winter, and people with red hair and fair skin often have more. Who acts: Freckles, sun, people. A sentence of the lesson «Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn» of the biology course of Mova's primary sch --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/353-skin-layers-sweat-goosebumps-freckles-and-sunburn/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freck…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/353-skin-layers-sweat-goosebumps-freckles-and-sunburn/) / 14 # Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn, sentence 14 Freckles are spots of extra melanin; sun makes them darker, they often fade in winter, and people with red hair and fair skin often have more. **Who acts:** Freckles, sun, people · **What happens:** be, make, fade, have · **To what, where:** spots, Freckles, more 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 (Freckles, sun, people), 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:14 # text = Freckles are spots of extra melanin; sun makes them darker, they often fade in winter, and people with red hair and fair skin often have more. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Freckles freckle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 extra extra ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 melanin melanin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 darker dark ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 xcomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 often often ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 fade fade VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 27 often often ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 29 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 28 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28: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 | Freckles | spots | | | | of extra melanin | tree rules | | 2 | **make** | present | sun | Freckles *= freckle* | | | | dark *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | | 3 | **fade** | present | Freckles *= freckle* | | | | winter | often *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **have** | present | people with red hair and fair skin | more | | | | often *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient | 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:353-skin-layers-sweat-goosebumps-freckles-and-sunburn.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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-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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