--- title: People shed tens of thousands of tiny dead skin flakes every minute,… — Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and su… · tree and pragmatics description: People shed tens of thousands of tiny dead skin flakes every minute, which become part of house dust, and tiny dust mites eat them. Who acts: People, tiny dead skin flakes, tiny dust mites. A sentence of the lesson «Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn» of the biology course of Mova --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn, sentence 7 People shed tens of thousands of tiny dead skin flakes every minute, which become part of house dust, and tiny dust mites eat them. **Who acts:** People, tiny dead skin flakes, tiny dust mites · **What happens:** shed, become, eat · **To what, where:** tens, part 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 (People, tiny dead skin flakes, tiny dust mites), 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:7 # text = People shed tens of thousands of tiny dead skin flakes every minute, which become part of house dust, and tiny dust mites eat them. # 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 ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 shed shed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 tens ten NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nmod _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 8 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 flakes flake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 11 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 12 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 become become VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 16 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 xcomp _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:amod 23 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 mites mite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shed** | past | People | tens of thousands of tiny dead skin flakes | | | minute | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ten=Source | | 2 | **become** | present | tiny dead skin flakes | part of house dust | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **eat** | present | tiny dust mites | tens *= ten* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:7`. **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 ×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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