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title: Ultraviolet light from the sun damages skin cells and causes sunburn… — Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and su… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ultraviolet light from the sun damages skin cells and causes sunburn; you can burn on a cloudy day, snow and water reflect sunlight onto you, and sunburn in childhood raises the risk of skin cancer later. Who acts: Ultraviolet light, you, snow, sunburn. A sentence of the lesson «Skin: layers, sweat,
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# Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn, sentence 15

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Ultraviolet light from the sun damages skin cells and causes sunburn; you can burn on a cloudy day, snow and water reflect sunlight onto you, and sunburn in childhood raises the risk of skin cancer later.

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**Who acts:** Ultraviolet light, you, snow, sunburn · **What happens:** cause, sunburn, burn, reflect, raise, risk · **To what, where:** sunlight, risk, skin cancer

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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 (Ultraviolet light, you, snow, sunburn), 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:15
# text = Ultraviolet light from the sun damages skin cells and causes sunburn; you can burn on a cloudy day, snow and water reflect sunlight onto you, and sunburn in childhood raises the risk of skin cancer later.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Ultraviolet	ultraviolet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det
5	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:compound
6	damages	damage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	causes	cause	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
11	sunburn	sunburn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	cloudy	cloudy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
21	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	reflect	reflect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
25	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	sunburn	sunburn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	childhood	childhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	raises	raise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	risk	risk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	cancer	cancer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	33	advmod	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | present | Ultraviolet light  the sun from damages *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 2 | **sunburn** | infinitive | Ultraviolet light  the sun from damages |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **burn** | can | you |  |  |  | day |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 4 | **reflect** | infinitive | snow and water | sunlight |  |  |  | onto you | tree rules |
| 5 | **raise** | present | sunburn in childhood | the risk of skin cancer |  |  |  | late *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent risk=Theme |
| 6 | **risk** |  |  | skin cancer |  |  |  |  | nom risk «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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