How medicines work, sentence 13
A placebo is a dummy treatment with no active medicine; people sometimes feel better just because they expect to.
Who acts: placebo, people, medicine · What happens: be, feel, expect · To what, where: dummy treatment
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 (placebo, people, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 placebo | det |
| 2 | placebo | placebo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 treatment | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 treatment | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 treatment | det |
| 5 | dummy | dummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 treatment | compound |
| 6 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 medicine | case |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 medicine | det |
| 9 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 medicine | amod |
| 10 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 treatment | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 treatment | punct |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 feel | nsubj |
| 13 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 feel | advmod |
| 14 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 treatment | parataxis |
| 15 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 feel | xcomp |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 expect | advmod |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 expect | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 expect | nsubj |
| 19 | expect | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 feel | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 expect | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 treatment | 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 a | present | a placebo | a dummy treatment | with no active medicine | tree rules | |||
| 2 | feel | present | people | good, sometimes property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | expect | present | medicine | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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:13.
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 ×2. 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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