--- title: A splinter should be removed by an adult with clean tweezers and the… — Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma · tree and pragmatics description: A splinter should be removed by an adult with clean tweezers and the skin washed, because a splinter left in can get infected. Who acts: adult. 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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 (adult), 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:4 # text = A splinter should be removed by an adult with clean tweezers and the skin washed, because a splinter left in can get infected. # 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): R5-strong ×5 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 splinter splinter NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 removed remove VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:agent _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 tweezers tweezer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 15 washed wash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 because because SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:mark 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 splinter splinter NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nsubj 20 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 21 in in ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:aux 23 get get AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 aux:pass _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 24 infected infected ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **remove** | should · passive | a adult | a splinter | | | | with clean tweezers and the skin | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 2 | **wash** | participle | | the skin *not said here* | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **leave in** | participle | | a splinter *not said here* | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:everyday:085-splinters-stings-and-allergies.lesson:4`. **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 ×5. **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/). - ← previous: [Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/85-splinters-stings-and-allergies/3/) - next →: [Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/85-splinters-stings-and-allergies/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/85-splinters-stings-and-allergies/)