Antibiotics, viruses and side effects, sentence 7
A chest infection caused by bacteria can improve within a couple of days on antibiotics, but doctors ask patients to take the course exactly as prescribed and to check with them before stopping.
Who acts: chest infection, doctors, patients · What happens: cause, improve, ask, take, prescribe, check · To what, where: chest infection, antibiotics, patients, course
This is a sentence of the lesson «Antibiotics, viruses and side effects» 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 (chest infection, doctors, patients), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 infection | det |
| 2 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 infection | compound |
| 3 | infection | infection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 improve | nsubj |
| 4 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 infection | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 bacteria | case |
| 6 | bacteria | bacterium | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 caused | obl:agent |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 improve | aux |
| 8 | improve | improve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | within | within | ADP | _ | 11 couple | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 couple | det |
| 11 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 improve | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 days | case |
| 13 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 couple | nmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 antibiotics | case |
| 15 | antibiotics | antibiotic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 improve | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ask | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 ask | cc |
| 18 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 ask | nsubj |
| 19 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 improve | conj |
| 20 | patients | patient | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 ask | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 take | mark |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 ask | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 course | det |
| 24 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obj |
| 25 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 27 prescribed | advmod |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 prescribed | mark |
| 27 | prescribed | prescribe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 take | advcl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 check | cc |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 check | mark |
| 30 | check | check | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 take | conj |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 them | case |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 check | obl |
| 33 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 34 stopping | mark |
| 34 | stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 check | advcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 improve | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | participle | a chest infection not said here | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | |||||
| 2 | improve | can | a chest infection | antibiotics | within a couple of days | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | present | doctors | patients | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent patient=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | patients not said here | the course | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Theme | ||||
| 5 | prescribe | participle | patients not said here | exactly property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | check | to-infinitive | patients not said here | with Antibiotics = antibiotic | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | stop | gerund | patients not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:019-antibiotics-viruses-and-side-effects.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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