Hospitals, operations and serious illness, sentence 16
Tablets, less salt and more exercise can lower high blood pressure, and measuring it only feels like a tight squeeze.
Who acts: Tablets, measuring · What happens: low, measure, feel · To what, where: high blood pressure, pressure
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 (Tablets, measuring), 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 | Tablets | tablet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lower | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 salt | punct |
| 3 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 salt | amod |
| 4 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tablets | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 exercise | cc |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 exercise | amod |
| 7 | exercise | exercise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tablets | conj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 lower | aux |
| 9 | lower | low | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pressure | amod |
| 11 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pressure | compound |
| 12 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lower | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 feels | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 feels | cc |
| 15 | measuring | measure | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 feels | csubj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 measuring | obj |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 feels | advmod |
| 18 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 lower | conj |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 squeeze | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 squeeze | det |
| 21 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 squeeze | amod |
| 22 | squeeze | squeeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 feels | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lower | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | low | can | Tablets and less salt and more exercise | high blood pressure | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pressure=Theme | ||||
| 2 | measure | gerund | pressure | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme it=Value | |||||
| 3 | feel | present | measuring | like a tight squeeze | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like squeeze=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:021-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness.lesson:16.
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, R7-rel-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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