How medicines work, sentence 9
Eye drops are put in by gently pulling down the lower lid, without touching the eye with the bottle; rubbing the eye straight afterwards can push the medicine out.
Who acts: rubbing · What happens: put in, pull down, touch, rub, push out · To what, where: Eye drops, lower lid, eye, medicine
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 (rubbing), 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 | Eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drops | compound |
| 2 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 put | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | aux:pass |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 put | compound:prt |
| 6 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 pulling | mark |
| 7 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 8 pulling | advmod |
| 8 | pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 put | advcl |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 pulling | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lid | det |
| 11 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 lid | amod |
| 12 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pulling | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lid | punct |
| 14 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 15 touching | mark |
| 15 | touching | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 pulling | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 eye | det |
| 17 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 touching | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 bottle | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bottle | det |
| 20 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 touching | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 rubbing | punct |
| 22 | rubbing | rub | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 push | csubj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 eye | det |
| 24 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rubbing | obj |
| 25 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 26 afterwards | advmod |
| 26 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 22 rubbing | advmod |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 push | aux |
| 28 | push | push | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 put | parataxis |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 medicine | det |
| 30 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 push | obj |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 push | compound:prt |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | 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 | put in | present · passive | Eye drops | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | |||||
| 2 | pull down | gerund | the lower lid | gently property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme | ||||
| 3 | touch | gerund | the eye | with the bottle | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent eye=Experiencer with bottle=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | rub | gerund | the eye | afterwards property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 5 | push out | can | rubbing | the medicine | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme |
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:9.
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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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