Tummy bugs and tummy aches, sentence 13

Constipation means hard poo that is difficult to pass; water, fruit, vegetables and wholegrains help, and holding it in makes it worse.

Who acts: Constipation, hard poo, water, holding · What happens: mean, be, pass, help, hold in, make · To what, where: hard poo, water

This is a sentence of the lesson «Tummy bugs and tummy aches» of the medicine 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 (Constipation, hard poo, water, holding), 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	Constipation	constipation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 poo	amod
4	poo	poo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 means	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 difficult	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 difficult	cop
7	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 poo	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 pass	mark
9	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 difficult	xcomp
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 water	punct
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 help	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fruit	punct
13	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 water	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 vegetables	punct
15	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 help	nsubj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wholegrains	cc
17	wholegrains	wholegrain	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 vegetables	conj
18	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 means	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 makes	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 makes	cc
21	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 makes	csubj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 holding	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	21 holding	compound:prt
24	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 help	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 makes	obj
26	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 makes	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 means	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Constipation	hard poo		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poo=Topic
2	is	present	hard poo		difficult property	tree rules
3	pass	to-infinitive	hard poo not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	help	present	water and fruit			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	hold in	gerund		water		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	make	present	holding	water	bad property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

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:medicine:010-tummy-bugs-and-tummy-aches.lesson:13.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×2, 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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