Getting better, caring for others and medicines, sentence 15

A boy in Ohio stopped his antibiotics after two days because he felt better; the ear infection came back worse and he needed a second, longer course.

Who acts: boy, ear infection, infection · What happens: stop, feel, come back, need · To what, where: antibiotics, second longer course

This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting better, caring for others and medicines» of the everyday 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 (boy, ear infection, infection), 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 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stopped	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Ohio	case
4	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 antibiotics	nmod:poss
7	antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stopped	obj
8	after	after	ADP	_	10 days	case
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 days	nummod
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stopped	obl
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 felt	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 felt	nsubj
13	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stopped	advcl
14	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 felt	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 infection	det
17	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 infection	compound
18	infection	infection	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	nsubj
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stopped	parataxis
20	back	back	ADV	_	19 came	advmod
21	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 came	xcomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 needed	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 needed	nsubj
24	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 came	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 course	det
26	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 course	amod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 course	punct
28	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 course	amod
29	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 needed	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	a boy in Ohio	boy's antibiotics	day		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector antibiotic=Eventuality
2	feel	past	boy			well property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	come back	past	the ear infection			bad property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	need	past	infection	a second longer course			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot course=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:everyday:082-getting-better-and-medicines.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): no change. 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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