--- title: The black dots in a verruca are tiny blood vessels, not roots, and c… — Changing-room germs · tree and pragmatics description: The black dots in a verruca are tiny blood vessels, not roots, and cutting or picking it can hurt and spread it. Who acts: black dots, cutting. A sentence of the lesson «Changing-room germs» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/59-changing-room-germs/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / [Changing-room germs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/59-changing-room-germs/) / 5 # Changing-room germs, sentence 5 The black dots in a verruca are tiny blood vessels, not roots, and cutting or picking it can hurt and spread it. **Who acts:** black dots, cutting · **What happens:** be, cut, pick, hurt, spread · **To what, where:** tiny blood vessels, adult This is a sentence of the lesson «Changing-room germs» of the medicine 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 (black dots, cutting), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:059-changing-room-germs.lesson:5 # text = The black dots in a verruca are tiny blood vessels, not roots, and cutting or picking it can hurt and spread it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 059-changing-room-germs.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 dots dot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 verruca verruca NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 vessels vessel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 cutting cut VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 21 csubj _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 picking pick VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 conj _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 spread spread VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 10 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 | the black dots in a verruca | tiny blood vessels and roots | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **cut** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **pick** | gerund | | adult | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **hurt** | can | cutting | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **spread** | infinitive | cutting *not said here* | adult | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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:059-changing-room-germs.lesson:5`. **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): R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [Changing-room germs, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/59-changing-room-germs/4/) - next →: [Changing-room germs, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/59-changing-room-germs/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/59-changing-room-germs/)