How medicines work, sentence 10
Some medicines are spaced through the day to keep a steady level in the blood; taking all the doses at once is dangerous.
What happens: space, keep, take, be · To what, where: medicines, steady level, blood, doses
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: 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 medicines | det |
| 2 | medicines | medicine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spaced | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 spaced | aux:pass |
| 4 | spaced | space | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spaced | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 keep | mark |
| 9 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 spaced | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 level | det |
| 11 | steady | steady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 level | amod |
| 12 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 keep | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 blood | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 blood | det |
| 15 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 keep | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 taking | punct |
| 17 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 keep | advcl |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 doses | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 doses | det |
| 20 | doses | dose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 taking | obj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 dangerous | case |
| 22 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 24 dangerous | advmod |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 dangerous | cop |
| 24 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 taking | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spaced | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | space | present · passive | some medicines | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | a steady level | the blood | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent level=Theme in blood=Location | ||||
| 3 | take | gerund | all doses | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dose=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | present | dangerous, once property | tree rules |
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:10.
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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