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title: Skin has two to four million sweat glands; sweat cools you as it dri… — Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and su… · tree and pragmatics
description: Skin has two to four million sweat glands; sweat cools you as it dries, because drying takes heat from the skin, and on a humid day it dries slowly and cools less. Who acts: Skin, sweat. A sentence of the lesson «Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn» of the biology course of Mova's 
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# Skin: layers, sweat, goosebumps, freckles and sunburn, sentence 9

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Skin has two to four million sweat glands; sweat cools you as it dries, because drying takes heat from the skin, and on a humid day it dries slowly and cools less.

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**Who acts:** Skin, sweat · **What happens:** have, cool, dry, take · **To what, where:** million sweat glands, you, heat, skin

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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, sweat), 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:9
# text = Skin has two to four million sweat glands; sweat cools you as it dries, because drying takes heat from the skin, and on a humid day it dries slowly and cools less.
# 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	Skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
6	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
7	sweat	sweat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
8	glands	gland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	sweat	sweat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	cools	cool	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	dries	dry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	drying	dry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	nsubj	_	_
19	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advcl
20	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	humid	humid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	dries	dry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
32	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	cools	cool	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
35	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	34	advmod	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **have** | present | Skin | million sweat glands |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gland=Patient |
| 2 | **cool** | present | sweat | you |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 3 | **dry** | present | skin |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **dry** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **take** | present |  | heat |  | the skin |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent heat=Theme from skin=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **dry** | present | skin |  |  |  | day | slowly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **cool** | present | skin *not said here* |  |  |  |  | less *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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 ×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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