How medicines work, sentence 11
Liquid medicine is easier for children to swallow, and the dose can be measured exactly.
Who acts: Liquid medicine · What happens: be, swallow, measure · To what, where: dose
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 (Liquid 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 | Liquid | liquid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 medicine | amod |
| 2 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 easier | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 easier | cop |
| 4 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 children | case |
| 6 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 easier | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 swallow | mark |
| 8 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 easier | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 measured | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 measured | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dose | det |
| 12 | dose | dose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 measured | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 measured | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 measured | aux:pass |
| 15 | measured | measure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 easier | conj |
| 16 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 15 measured | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 easier | 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 | is | present | Liquid medicine | for children; easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swallow | to-infinitive | Liquid medicine not said here | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | measure | can · passive | the dose | exactly property | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value |
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:11.
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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