How medicines work, sentence 15
Regulators, official checkers, test a medicine before doctors can prescribe (order) it, and side effects (unwanted effects) are watched for after it goes on sale, because rare ones only show up when many people use it.
Who acts: Regulators, doctors, order, rare ones, many people · What happens: test, prescribe, watch, go, show up, use · To what, where: medicine, order, side effects, sale
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 (Regulators, doctors, order, rare ones), 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 | Regulators | regulator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 test | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 checkers | punct |
| 3 | official | official | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 checkers | amod |
| 4 | checkers | checker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Regulators | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 medicine | punct |
| 6 | test | test | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 medicine | det |
| 8 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 test | obj |
| 9 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 prescribe | mark |
| 10 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 prescribe | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 prescribe | aux |
| 12 | prescribe | prescribe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 test | advcl |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 order | punct |
| 14 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 prescribe | obj |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 14 order | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 prescribe | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 watched | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 watched | cc |
| 19 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 effects | compound |
| 20 | effects | effect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 watched | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 effects | punct |
| 22 | unwanted | unwanted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 effects | amod |
| 23 | effects | effect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 effects | appos |
| 24 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 effects | punct |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 watched | aux:pass |
| 26 | watched | watch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 test | conj |
| 27 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 30 goes | mark |
| 28 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 30 goes | mark |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 goes | nsubj |
| 30 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 watched | advcl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 sale | case |
| 32 | sale | sale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 goes | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 show | punct |
| 34 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 38 show | mark |
| 35 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 ones | amod |
| 36 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 show | nsubj |
| 37 | only | only | ADV | _ | 38 show | advmod |
| 38 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 watched | advcl |
| 39 | up | up | ADP | _ | 38 show | compound:prt |
| 40 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 43 use | advmod |
| 41 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 people | amod |
| 42 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 use | nsubj |
| 43 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 show | advcl |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 use | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 watched | 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 | test | present | Regulators and official checkers | a medicine | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme | ||||
| 2 | prescribe | can | doctors | order | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | watch | present · passive | side effects | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | present | order | sale | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on sale=Location | ||||
| 5 | show up | present | rare ones | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | use | present | many people | order | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:15.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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