Sore backs, glasses and feeling low, sentence 12

A filling repairs a hole in a tooth; the dentist numbs the area first, and the numbness lasts a couple of hours, so talking and eating are hard.

Who acts: filling, dentist, numbness · What happens: repair, numb, last, talk, eat, be · To what, where: hole, tooth, area, couple

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sore backs, glasses and feeling low» 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 (filling, dentist, numbness), 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	2 filling	det
2	filling	filling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 repairs	nsubj
3	repairs	repair	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 hard	parataxis
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hole	det
5	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 repairs	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 tooth	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tooth	det
8	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hole	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 numbs	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dentist	det
11	dentist	dentist	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 numbs	nsubj
12	numbs	numb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 repairs	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 area	det
14	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 numbs	obj
15	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 numbs	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lasts	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 lasts	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 numbness	det
19	numbness	numbness	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lasts	nsubj
20	lasts	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 numbs	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 couple	det
22	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lasts	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 hours	case
24	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 couple	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 talking	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 talking	advmod
27	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 lasts	advcl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 eating	cc
29	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 talking	conj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 hard	cop
31	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 repairs	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	repair	present	a filling	a hole	a tooth		vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hole=Patient
2	numb	present	the dentist	the area		first property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus area=Experiencer
3	last	present	the numbness	a couple of hours			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme couple=Value
4	talk	gerund	the numbness not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	eat	gerund	the numbness not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	present				hard property	tree rules

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:022-sore-backs-glasses-and-feeling-low.lesson:12.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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