How medicines work, sentence 4
Medicines look like sweets to small children, so they are kept locked up high, out of reach and sight.
Who acts: Medicines, medicine · What happens: look, keep, lock up · To what, where: medicine, reach
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 (Medicines, 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 | Medicines | medicine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 look | nsubj |
| 2 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 sweets | case |
| 4 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 look | obl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 children | case |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 children | amod |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 look | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 kept | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 kept | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 kept | aux:pass |
| 12 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 look | parataxis |
| 13 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 kept | xcomp |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 locked | compound:prt |
| 15 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 locked | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 reach | punct |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 reach | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 reach | case |
| 19 | reach | reach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 locked | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sight | cc |
| 21 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reach | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | Medicines | like sweets; to small children | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to child=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep | present · passive | medicine | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lock up | participle | medicine not said here | reach and sight | high property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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:4.
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 ×1, 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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