How medicines work, sentence 12
Many medicines are naturally bitter, so makers add sweet flavours for children.
Who acts: Many medicines, makers · What happens: be, add · To what, where: sweet flavours
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 (Many medicines, makers), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 medicines | amod |
| 2 | medicines | medicine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bitter | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bitter | cop |
| 4 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 5 bitter | advmod |
| 5 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 add | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 add | advmod |
| 8 | makers | maker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 add | nsubj |
| 9 | add | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bitter | parataxis |
| 10 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 flavours | amod |
| 11 | flavours | flavour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 add | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 children | case |
| 13 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 add | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bitter | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Many medicines | bitter, naturally property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | present | makers | sweet flavours | for children | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flavour=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:12.
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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