Going to the doctor and the chemist, sentence 5
Not every illness needs medicine: a cold gets better on its own.
Who acts: illness, cold · What happens: not need, get · To what, where: medicine, own
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 (illness, cold), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 needs | advmod |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 illness | det |
| 3 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 needs | nsubj |
| 4 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 needs | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 needs | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cold | det |
| 8 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gets | nsubj |
| 9 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 needs | parataxis |
| 10 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 gets | xcomp |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 own | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 own | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 gets | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 needs | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not need | present | every illness | medicine | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot medicine=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | present | a cold | cold's own | good property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on own=Source |
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: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): 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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