Going to the doctor and the chemist, sentence 18
A jab is a vaccine given by injection; it teaches the body to fight a disease, and a booster tops up the protection.
Who acts: jab, injection, body, booster · What happens: be, give, teach, fight, top up · To what, where: vaccine, body, disease, protection
This is a sentence of the lesson «Going to the doctor and the chemist» of the adult life 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 (jab, injection, body, booster), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 jab | det |
| 2 | jab | jab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 vaccine | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 vaccine | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 vaccine | det |
| 5 | vaccine | vaccine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 teaches | conj |
| 6 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 vaccine | acl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 injection | case |
| 8 | injection | injection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 given | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 teaches | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 teaches | nsubj |
| 11 | teaches | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 body | det |
| 13 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 teaches | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 fight | mark |
| 15 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 teaches | xcomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 disease | det |
| 17 | disease | disease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fight | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 tops | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 tops | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 booster | det |
| 21 | booster | booster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tops | nsubj |
| 22 | tops | top | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 teaches | conj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 tops | compound:prt |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 protection | det |
| 25 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tops | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 vaccine | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a jab | a vaccine | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | participle | a vaccine not said here | by injection | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | teach speech: other | present | injection | the body | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent body=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | fight | to-infinitive | the body not said here | a disease | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disease=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | top up | present | a booster | the protection | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme protection=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, 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:adult-life:020-the-doctor-and-the-chemist.lesson:18.
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.
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