How medicines work, sentence 14
Scientists compare new medicines with placebos in trials to see if they really work.
Who acts: Scientists, medicine · What happens: compare, see, work · To what, where: new medicines, trials
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 (Scientists, 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 | Scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 compare | nsubj |
| 2 | compare | compare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 medicines | amod |
| 4 | medicines | medicine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 compare | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 placebos | case |
| 6 | placebos | placebo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 compare | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 trials | case |
| 8 | trials | trial | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 compare | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 see | mark |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 compare | advcl |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 work | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 work | nsubj |
| 13 | really | really | ADV | _ | 14 work | advmod |
| 14 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | ccomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 compare | 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 | compare | present | Scientists | new medicines | trials | with placebos | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent medicine=Patient with placebo=Co-Patient | ||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Scientists not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | work a condition, not said to happen | present | medicine | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: 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:14.
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): R5-strong ×2, 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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