Going to the doctor and the chemist, sentence 21
A pill box with the days of the week helps someone see whether today's tablets have been taken and avoid a double dose.
Who acts: pill box, someone · What happens: help, see, take, avoid · To what, where: someone, tablets, double dose · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (pill box, someone), 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 | 3 box | det |
| 2 | pill | pill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 box | compound |
| 3 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 helps | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 days | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 days | det |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 box | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 week | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 week | det |
| 9 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 days | nmod |
| 10 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 helps | obj |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 helps | xcomp |
| 13 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 19 taken | mark |
| 14 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tablets | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 today | case |
| 16 | tablets | tablet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 taken | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 taken | aux:pass |
| 19 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 see | ccomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 avoid | cc |
| 21 | avoid | avoid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 see | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 dose | det |
| 23 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 dose | amod |
| 24 | dose | dose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 avoid | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | a pill box with the days of the week | someone | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent someone=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | someone not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | take | present · perfect · passive | today's tablets | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | avoid | infinitive | someone not said here | a double dose | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent dose=Location |
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:21.
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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