How medicines work, sentence 6
Most swallowed medicines are absorbed through the gut into the blood and carried all round the body, acting where they find the right targets.
Who acts: medicine · What happens: swallow, absorb, carry, act, find · To what, where: swallowed medicines, gut, right targets
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 (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 | Most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 2 swallowed | advmod |
| 2 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 medicines | amod |
| 3 | medicines | medicine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 absorbed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 absorbed | aux:pass |
| 5 | absorbed | absorb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 gut | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gut | det |
| 8 | gut | gut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 absorbed | obl |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 blood | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 blood | det |
| 11 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 absorbed | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 carried | cc |
| 13 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 absorbed | conj |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 carried | advmod |
| 15 | round | round | ADP | _ | 17 body | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 body | det |
| 17 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carried | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 acting | punct |
| 19 | acting | act | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 carried | advcl |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 find | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 find | nsubj |
| 22 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 acting | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 targets | det |
| 24 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 targets | amod |
| 25 | targets | target | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 find | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 absorbed | 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 | swallow | participle | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | absorb | present · passive | swallowed medicines | the gut | into the blood | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | carry | past | round the body; all property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | act | gerund | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | find | present | medicine | the right targets | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent target=Topic |
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:6.
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. 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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