When Grandma and Grandad need more help, sentence 7
Diabetes means the body cannot control the sugar in the blood properly; a small machine measures blood sugar from a drop of blood from the finger.
Who acts: Diabetes, body, small machine · What happens: mean, not control, measure · To what, where: sugar, blood, blood sugar, drop · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «When Grandma and Grandad need more help» 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 (Diabetes, body, small machine), 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 | Diabetes | diabetes | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 means | nsubj |
| 2 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 body | det |
| 4 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 control | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 control | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 control | advmod |
| 7 | control | control | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 means | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sugar | det |
| 9 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 control | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 blood | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 blood | det |
| 12 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sugar | nmod |
| 13 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 7 control | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 measures | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 machine | det |
| 16 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 machine | amod |
| 17 | machine | machine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 measures | nsubj |
| 18 | measures | measure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 means | parataxis |
| 19 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sugar | compound |
| 20 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 measures | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 drop | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 drop | det |
| 23 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 measures | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 blood | case |
| 25 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 drop | nmod |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 finger | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 finger | det |
| 28 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 drop | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | Diabetes | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not control | can | the body | the sugar | the blood | properly property | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sugar=Theme | ||
| 3 | measure | present | a small machine | blood sugar | a drop of blood from the finger | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme sugar=Value |
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:023-when-grandma-and-grandad-need-more-help.lesson:7.
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): 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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