How medicines work, sentence 8
Liquid medicine is measured with a measuring syringe or spoon, because kitchen spoons are different sizes.
Who acts: kitchen spoons · What happens: measure, be · To what, where: Liquid medicine, different sizes
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 (kitchen spoons), 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 | Liquid | liquid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 medicine | amod |
| 2 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 measured | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 measured | aux:pass |
| 4 | measured | measure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 syringe | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 syringe | det |
| 7 | measuring | measuring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 syringe | compound |
| 8 | syringe | syringe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 measured | obl |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 spoon | cc |
| 10 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 syringe | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 measured | punct |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 sizes | mark |
| 13 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spoons | compound |
| 14 | spoons | spoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sizes | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 sizes | cop |
| 16 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sizes | amod |
| 17 | sizes | size | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 measured | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 measured | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | measure | present · passive | Liquid medicine | with a measuring syringe or spoon | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | kitchen spoons | different sizes | 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:8.
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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