Going to the doctor and the chemist, sentence 20
Antibiotics kill bacteria but do nothing against colds, which are caused by viruses.
Who acts: Antibiotics, viruses · What happens: kill, do, cause · To what, where: bacteria, nothing, colds
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 (Antibiotics, viruses), 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 | Antibiotics | antibiotic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kill | nsubj |
| 2 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | bacteria | bacteria | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kill | obj |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 do | cc |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 kill | conj |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | against | against | ADP | _ | 8 colds | case |
| 8 | colds | cold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 nothing | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 caused | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 caused | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 caused | aux:pass |
| 12 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 colds | acl:relcl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 viruses | case |
| 14 | viruses | virus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 caused | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kill | punct |
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 | kill | present | Antibiotics | bacteria | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bacteria=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | present | Antibiotics not said here | nothing | against colds | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | cause | present · passive | viruses | colds | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient |
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:20.
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): no change. 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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