--- title: Warts are caused by a human virus, so toads can't give you warts; so… — Small creatures and creepy-crawlies · tree and pragmatics description: Warts are caused by a human virus, so toads can't give you warts; some toads have skin that irritates, so wash your hands after touching one. Who acts: human virus, toads, skin. 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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 (human virus, toads, skin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:009-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies.lesson:8 # text = Warts are caused by a human virus, so toads can't give you warts; some toads have skin that irritates, so wash your hands after touching one. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 009-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Warts wart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 caused cause VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 human human ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 virus virus NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 10 toads toad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 11 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 iobj _ _ 15 warts wart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 18 det _ _ 18 toads toad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 21 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 irritates irritate VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 wash wash VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 26 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 after after SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 29 touching touch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 30 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=29:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:NN:_ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cause** | present · passive | a human virus | Warts | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient | | 2 | **not** **give** | can | toads | warts | you | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient wart=Theme | | 3 | **have** | present | some toads | skin | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient | | 4 | **irritate** | present | skin | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **wash** | infinitive | | your hands | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | | 6 | **touch** | gerund | | one | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Co-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:myths:009-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies.lesson:8`. **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, R8-pos-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: [Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/7/) - next →: [Small creatures and creepy-crawlies, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/9-small-creatures-and-creepy-crawlies/)