How medicines work, sentence 1

Calpol is children's paracetamol: it blocks pain signals and lowers fever, but it doesn't cure the cause; your body does the healing.

Who acts: Calpol, tablet, body · What happens: be, block, lower, not cure, do · To what, where: paracetamol, pain signals, fever, cause, healing

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 (Calpol, tablet, body), 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	Calpol	Calpol	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 paracetamol	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 paracetamol	cop
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 paracetamol	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 children	case
5	paracetamol	paracetamol	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 blocks	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 blocks	nsubj
8	blocks	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 paracetamol	parataxis
9	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 signals	compound
10	signals	signal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 blocks	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lowers	cc
12	lowers	lower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 blocks	conj
13	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lowers	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cure	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 cure	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 cure	nsubj
17	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 cure	aux
18	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 cure	advmod
19	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 blocks	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cause	det
21	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cure	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 does	punct
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 body	nmod:poss
24	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 does	nsubj
25	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 paracetamol	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 healing	det
27	healing	healing	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 does	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 paracetamol	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	Calpol	children's paracetamol	tree rules
2	block	present	tablet	pain signals	vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer signal=Theme
3	lower	present	tablet not said here	fever	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fever=Theme
4	not cure	present · do-support	tablet	the cause	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer cause=Source
5	do	present	your body	the healing	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent healing=Eventuality

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:1.

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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