The right dose and never more than, sentence 11
Liquid medicines come in different strengths, so the strength is checked and the line read at eye level, because looking from above or below makes you misread it.
Who acts: Liquid medicines, looking, you · What happens: come in, check, read, look, make, misread · To what, where: different strengths, strength, line, eye level, you, medicine
This is a sentence of the lesson «The right dose and never more than» 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 (Liquid medicines, looking, you), 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 medicines | amod |
| 2 | medicines | medicine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 come | nsubj |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 come | advmod |
| 5 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 strengths | amod |
| 6 | strengths | strength | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 come | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 checked | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 checked | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 strength | det |
| 10 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 checked | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 checked | aux:pass |
| 12 | checked | check | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 come | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 read | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 line | det |
| 15 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 read | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 checked | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 level | case |
| 18 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 level | compound |
| 19 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 read | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 looking | punct |
| 21 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 27 makes | mark |
| 22 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 makes | csubj |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 above | case |
| 24 | above | above | ADV | _ | 22 looking | obl |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 below | cc |
| 26 | below | below | ADV | _ | 24 above | conj |
| 27 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 come | advcl |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 makes | obj |
| 29 | misread | misread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 makes | xcomp |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 misread | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | present | Liquid medicines | different strengths | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | check | present · passive | the strength | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | read | participle · passive | the line | eye level | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme at level=Value | ||||
| 4 | look | gerund | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from above=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | make | present | looking | you | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | misread | infinitive | you not said here | medicine | 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:018-the-right-dose-and-never-more-than.lesson:11.
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, 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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