Hospitals, operations and serious illness, sentence 13
Chemo, short for chemotherapy, is strong medicine that kills cancer cells; it can make people very tired and sick for months, and many people recover.
Who acts: Chemo, strong medicine, many people · What happens: be, kill, make, recover · To what, where: strong medicine, cancer cells, people
This is a sentence of the lesson «Hospitals, operations and serious illness» 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 (Chemo, strong medicine, many people), 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 | Chemo | chemo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 medicine | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 chemotherapy | punct |
| 3 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Chemo | amod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 chemotherapy | case |
| 5 | chemotherapy | chemotherapy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 short | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Chemo | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 medicine | cop |
| 8 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 medicine | amod |
| 9 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 kills | nsubj |
| 11 | kills | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 medicine | acl:relcl |
| 12 | cancer | cancer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cells | compound |
| 13 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 kills | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 make | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 make | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 make | aux |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 kills | advcl |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 make | obj |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 tired | advmod |
| 20 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 make | xcomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sick | cc |
| 22 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tired | conj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 months | case |
| 24 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 tired | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 recover | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 recover | cc |
| 27 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 people | amod |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 recover | nsubj |
| 29 | recover | recover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 make | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 medicine | 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 | is a | present | Chemo | strong medicine | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill | present | strong medicine | cancer cells | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | can | Chemo | people | tired property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material people=Product | |||
| 4 | recover | present | many people | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:021-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness.lesson:13.
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): R5-strong ×2. 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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