Asthma and inhalers, sentence 3
A spacer, a plastic tube on the inhaler, helps more medicine reach the lungs instead of sticking in the mouth.
Who acts: spacer, more medicine · What happens: help, reach, stick · To what, where: more medicine, lungs, mouth
This is a sentence of the lesson «Asthma and inhalers» 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 (spacer, more medicine), 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 spacer | det |
| 2 | spacer | spacer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 helps | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tube | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tube | det |
| 5 | plastic | plastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tube | amod |
| 6 | tube | tube | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spacer | appos |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 inhaler | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 inhaler | det |
| 9 | inhaler | inhaler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tube | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 spacer | punct |
| 11 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 medicine | amod |
| 13 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 helps | obj |
| 14 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 helps | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lungs | det |
| 16 | lungs | lung | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 reach | obj |
| 17 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 19 sticking | mark |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 instead | fixed |
| 19 | sticking | stick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 reach | advcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 mouth | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 mouth | det |
| 22 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sticking | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 helps | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | a spacer | more medicine | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent medicine=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reach | infinitive | more medicine not said here | the lungs | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent lung=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stick | gerund | more medicine not said here | the mouth | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in mouth=Destination |
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:014-asthma-and-inhalers.lesson:3.
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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