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title: Skin is the body's largest organ; an adult's skin would cover roughl… — Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and su… · tree and pragmatics
description: Skin is the body's largest organ; an adult's skin would cover roughly two square metres if laid out flat. Who acts: Skin. A sentence of the lesson «Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn, sentence 4

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Skin is the body's largest organ; an adult's skin would cover roughly two square metres if laid out flat.

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**Who acts:** Skin · **What happens:** be, cover, lay out · **To what, where:** largest organ, two square metres

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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), 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:4
# text = Skin is the body's largest organ; an adult's skin would cover roughly two square metres if laid out flat.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	organ	organ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
15	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
17	square	square	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	laid	lay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
22	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | present | Skin | the body's largest organ |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cover** | would | a adult's skin | two square metres |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme metre=Destination |
| 3 | **lay out** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | a adult's skin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | flat *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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**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:4`.

**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): 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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