How medicines work, sentence 5
Calpol is a brand of paracetamol for children; painkillers block pain signals and lower fever but don't cure the cause.
Who acts: Calpol, painkillers · What happens: be, block, lower, not cure · To what, where: brand, pain signals, fever, cause
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 (Calpol, painkillers), 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 | Calpol | Calpol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 brand | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 brand | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 brand | det |
| 4 | brand | brand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 paracetamol | case |
| 6 | paracetamol | paracetamol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brand | nmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 children | case |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 paracetamol | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 signals | punct |
| 10 | painkillers | painkiller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 block | nsubj |
| 11 | block | block | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 brand | parataxis |
| 12 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 signals | compound |
| 13 | signals | signal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 block | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lower | cc |
| 15 | lower | lower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 block | conj |
| 16 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lower | obj |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 cure | cc |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 cure | aux |
| 19 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 cure | advmod |
| 20 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 block | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cause | det |
| 22 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cure | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brand | 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 | Calpol | a brand | of paracetamol for children | tree rules | |||
| 2 | block | present | painkillers | pain signals | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer signal=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lower | present | painkillers not said here | fever | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fever=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not cure | present · do-support | painkillers not said here | the cause | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer cause=Source |
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:5.
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): no change. 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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