--- title: Look at a sunbeam in your bedroom: those floating specks of dust are… — Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and su… · tree and pragmatics description: Look at a sunbeam in your bedroom: those floating specks of dust are partly your own dead skin, because the outer layer is always flaking off and being replaced from below. Who acts: you, floating specks, outer layer. 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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 (you, floating specks, outer layer), 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:2 # text = Look at a sunbeam in your bedroom: those floating specks of dust are partly your own dead skin, because the outer layer is always flaking off and being replaced from below. # 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 ×1 1 Look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 sunbeam sunbeam NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 bedroom bedroom NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:obl 8 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 9 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 11 det _ _ 10 floating float VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 amod _ _ 11 specks speck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 15 partly partly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 16 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 17 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 parataxis _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 because because SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 outer outer ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 layer layer NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 27 advmod _ _ 27 flaking flake VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 28 off off ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 replaced replace VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 conj _ _ 32 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 below below ADV RB _ 31 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | at a sunbeam in your bedroom | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sunbeam=Theme | | 2 | **float** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | present | that floating specks of dust | your own dead skin | | | | partly *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **flake off** | present · progressive | the outer layer | | | | | always *property* | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **replace** | gerund · passive | the outer layer *not said here* | | | | | | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V PP.co-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:353-skin-layers-sweat-goosebumps-freckles-and-sunburn.lesson:2`. **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 ×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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