How medicines work, sentence 0
A tablet doesn't know where your headache is: it is swallowed, soaks through the gut into the blood, and travels all round the body, acting only on the parts it fits, like a key in a lock.
Who acts: tablet, headache · What happens: not know, be, swallow, soak, travel, act · To what, where: headache, gut, body, parts · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «How medicines work» 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 (tablet, headache), 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 tablet | det |
| 2 | tablet | tablet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 know | ccomp |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 headache | nmod:poss |
| 8 | headache | headache | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 where | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 where | cop |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 swallowed | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 swallowed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 swallowed | aux:pass |
| 13 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 know | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 soaks | punct |
| 15 | soaks | soak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 swallowed | conj |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 gut | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 gut | det |
| 18 | gut | gut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 soaks | obl |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 blood | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 blood | det |
| 21 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 soaks | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 travels | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 travels | cc |
| 24 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | conj |
| 25 | all | all | ADV | _ | 24 travels | advmod |
| 26 | round | round | ADP | _ | 28 body | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 body | det |
| 28 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 travels | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 acting | punct |
| 30 | acting | act | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 travels | advcl |
| 31 | only | only | ADV | _ | 30 acting | advmod |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 parts | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 parts | det |
| 34 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 acting | obl |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 fits | nsubj |
| 36 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 parts | acl:relcl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 key | punct |
| 38 | like | like | ADP | _ | 40 key | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 key | det |
| 40 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 acting | obl |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 lock | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 lock | det |
| 43 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 key | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | 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 | not know | present · do-support | a tablet | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | your headache | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | swallow | present · passive | headache | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | soak | present | the gut | into the blood | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | travel | present | a tablet not said here | the body | all property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round body=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | act | gerund | a tablet not said here | the parts | like a key in a lock | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on part=Eventuality | |||
| 7 | fit | present | headache | the parts not said here | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=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:medicine:017-how-medicines-work.lesson:0.
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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