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title: Skin also reacts to the world: it sweats to cool you, makes goosebum… — Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and su… · tree and pragmatics
description: Skin also reacts to the world: it sweats to cool you, makes goosebumps when you are cold, makes extra brown melanin in the sun, and burns if the sun's ultraviolet light is too strong. Who acts: Skin, you, ultraviolet light, sun. A sentence of the lesson «Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and
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# Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn, sentence 3

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Skin also reacts to the world: it sweats to cool you, makes goosebumps when you are cold, makes extra brown melanin in the sun, and burns if the sun's ultraviolet light is too strong.

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**Who acts:** Skin, you, ultraviolet light, sun · **What happens:** react, sweat, cool, make, be, burn · **To what, where:** you, goosebumps, extra brown melanin, sun

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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, ultraviolet light, sun), 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:3
# text = Skin also reacts to the world: it sweats to cool you, makes goosebumps when you are cold, makes extra brown melanin in the sun, and burns if the sun's ultraviolet light is too strong.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	reacts	react	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sweats	sweat	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	cool	cool	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:xcomp
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
15	goosebumps	goosebump	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	melanin	melanin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	burns	burn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
31	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	_
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	ultraviolet	ultraviolet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
36	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	too	too	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	advcl	_	_
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **react** | present | Skin |  |  |  |  | to the world | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to world=Theme |
| 2 | **sweat** | present | skin |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cool** | to-infinitive | skin *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | present | skin *not said here* | goosebumps |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset goosebump=Product |
| 5 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | cold *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **make** | present | Skin *not said here* | extra brown melanin |  | the sun |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset melanin=Product |
| 7 | **burn** | present | Skin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the sun's ultraviolet light |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **light** |  | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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