How medicines work, sentence 7

Creams work where they are put, so less medicine goes round the whole body; a thin layer as directed is enough.

Who acts: Creams, less medicine, thin layer · What happens: work, put, go round, direct, be · To what, where: medicine, whole body, thin layer

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 (Creams, less medicine, thin layer), 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	Creams	cream	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 work	nsubj
2	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 put	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 put	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 put	aux:pass
6	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 work	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 goes	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 goes	advmod
9	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 medicine	amod
10	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 goes	nsubj
11	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 work	conj
12	round	round	ADV	_	11 goes	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 body	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 body	amod
15	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 goes	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 enough	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 layer	det
18	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 layer	amod
19	layer	layer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 enough	nsubj
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 directed	mark
21	directed	direct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 layer	acl
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 enough	cop
23	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 work	parataxis
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 work	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	work	present	Creams			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	put	present · passive		medicine		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
3	go round	present	less medicine	the whole body	round property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	direct	participle		a thin layer not said here		vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	a thin layer		enough property	tree rules

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:7.

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): R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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