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title: A splinter left in the skin can let germs in and cause an infection. — Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma · tree and pragmatics
description: A splinter left in the skin can let germs in and cause an infection. Who acts: splinter. A sentence of the lesson «Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma, sentence 19

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A splinter left in the skin can let germs in and cause an infection.

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**Who acts:** splinter · **What happens:** leave, let in, cause · **To what, where:** splinter, skin, germs, infection

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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 (splinter), 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:19
# text = A splinter left in the skin can let germs in and cause an infection.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	splinter	splinter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	infection	infection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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** | participle |  | a splinter *not said here* |  |  |  | in the skin *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in skin=Result |
| 2 | **let in** | can | a splinter | germs |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme |
| 3 | **cause** | infinitive | a splinter *not said here* | a infection |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition infection=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:19`.

**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): no change. **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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