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title: A girl in Georgia left a splinter deep in her palm for a week; the s… — Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Georgia left a splinter deep in her palm for a week; the skin around it became infected, and a nurse had to take it out and clean it. Who acts: girl, skin, nurse. A sentence of the lesson «Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dep
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# Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma, sentence 17

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A girl in Georgia left a splinter deep in her palm for a week; the skin around it became infected, and a nurse had to take it out and clean it.

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**Who acts:** girl, skin, nurse · **What happens:** leave, become, have, take out, clean · **To what, where:** splinter, palm, nurse

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma» of the everyday 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 (girl, skin, nurse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:085-splinters-stings-and-allergies.lesson:17
# text = A girl in Georgia left a splinter deep in her palm for a week; the skin around it became infected, and a nurse had to take it out and clean it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 085-splinters-stings-and-allergies.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 ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Georgia	Georgia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	splinter	splinter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	around	around	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
20	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
21	infected	infected	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	clean	clean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **leave** | past | a girl in Georgia | a splinter |  | girl's palm | week |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent splinter=Theme in palm=Location |
| 2 | **become** | past | the skin around palm |  |  |  |  | infected *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | past | a nurse |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **take out** | to-infinitive | a nurse *not said here* | nurse |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **clean** | infinitive | a nurse *not said here* | nurse |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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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**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:everyday:085-splinters-stings-and-allergies.lesson:17`.

**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 ×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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