--- title: A verruca is a wart on the foot caused by a virus, often picked up f… — Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and frie… · tree and pragmatics description: A verruca is a wart on the foot caused by a virus, often picked up from wet floors; it has no roots to dig out; in the UK children can usually swim with it covered. Who acts: verruca, children. 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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 (verruca, children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:011-spots-and-itches-chickenpox-head-lice-and-friends.lesson:10 # text = A verruca is a wart on the foot caused by a virus, often picked up from wet floors; it has no roots to dig out; in the UK children can usually swim with it covered. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 011-spots-and-itches-chickenpox-head-lice-and-friends.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 verruca verruca NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 wart wart NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 caused cause VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 virus virus NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:agent _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 often often ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 picked pick VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl:relcl _ _ 16 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 floors floor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 23 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 24 det _ _ 24 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 dig dig VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 acl _ _ 27 out out ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:det 31 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:compound 32 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:obl 33 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 usually usually ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 swim swim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=22:conj 36 with with SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 advcl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **is a** | present | a verruca | a wart | | the foot | | | tree rules | | 2 | **cause** | participle | | the foot *not said here* | | | | | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | | 3 | **pick up** | participle | | a virus *not said here* | | wet floors | | often *property* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.source how S»: agent=Agent from floor=Source | | 4 | **have** | present | verruca | no roots | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Patient | | 5 | **dig out** | to-infinitive | verruca *not said here* | no roots *not said here* | | | | | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **swim** | can | children | the UK | | | | usually *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **cover** | participle | verruca | | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: 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:medicine:011-spots-and-itches-chickenpox-head-lice-and-friends.lesson:10`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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