Milk, cheese and yoghurt, sentence 15

Lactose intolerance means the body cannot digest milk sugar well, because some people stop making the enzyme that breaks it down (an enzyme is a helper substance the body makes to break food apart).

Who acts: Lactose intolerance, body, people, enzyme, helper substance · What happens: mean, not digest, stop, make, break down, be · To what, where: milk sugar, enzyme, helper substance, food · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Milk, cheese and yoghurt» of the chemistry 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 (Lactose intolerance, body, people, enzyme), 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	Lactose	lactose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 intolerance	compound
2	intolerance	intolerance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 means	nsubj
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 body	det
5	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 digest	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 digest	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 digest	advmod
8	digest	digest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 means	ccomp
9	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sugar	compound
10	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 digest	obj
11	well	well	ADV	_	8 digest	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stop	punct
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 stop	mark
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 people	det
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 stop	nsubj
16	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 digest	advcl
17	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 stop	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 enzyme	det
19	enzyme	enzyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 making	obj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 breaks	nsubj
21	breaks	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 enzyme	acl:relcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 breaks	obj
23	down	down	ADP	_	21 breaks	compound:prt
24	(	(	PUNCT	_	30 substance	punct
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 enzyme	det
26	enzyme	enzyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 substance	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 substance	cop
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 substance	det
29	helper	helper	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 substance	compound
30	substance	substance	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 breaks	parataxis
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 body	det
32	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 makes	nsubj
33	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 substance	acl:relcl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 break	mark
35	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 makes	xcomp
36	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 break	obj
37	apart	apart	ADV	_	35 break	advmod
38	)	)	PUNCT	_	30 substance	punct
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Lactose intolerance			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not digest	can	the body	milk sugar	well property	tree rules
3	stop	present	some people			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	make	gerund	some people not said here	the enzyme		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset enzyme=Product
5	break down	present	the enzyme	enzyme		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	is a	present	a enzyme	a helper substance		tree rules
7	make	present	the body	a helper substance not said here		tree rules
8	break	to-infinitive	a helper substance not said here	food	apart property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Patient

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:chemistry:022-milk-cheese-and-yoghurt.lesson:15.

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. 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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