--- title: The outer layer of skin replaces itself about every four weeks, bit… — Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and su… · tree and pragmatics description: The outer layer of skin replaces itself about every four weeks, bit by bit, while a snake sheds its whole skin in one go. Who acts: outer layer, snake. 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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 (outer layer, snake), 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:8 # text = The outer layer of skin replaces itself about every four weeks, bit by bit, while a snake sheds its whole skin in one go. # 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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 outer outer ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 layer layer NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 replaces replace VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 6 obj _ _ 8 about about ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 9 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 11 det _ _ 10 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:conj 14 by by ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 while while SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:det 19 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:compound 20 sheds shed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 go go NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nmod 27 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **replace** | present | the outer layer of skin | skin | | | week | bit by bit *obl* | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme itself=Co-Theme | | 2 | **shed** | present | a snake | skin's whole skin | | one go | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skin=Source | 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:8`. **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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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