Sugar, teeth and the dentist, sentence 15
Many people feel nervous about the dentist, and dentists can agree a stop signal, like raising a hand.
Who acts: Many people, dentists · What happens: feel, agree, raise · To what, where: stop signal, hand
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sugar, teeth and the dentist» 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 (Many people, dentists), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 people | amod |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 feel | nsubj |
| 3 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nervous | nervous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 feel | xcomp |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 dentist | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dentist | det |
| 7 | dentist | dentist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nervous | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 agree | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 agree | cc |
| 10 | dentists | dentist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 agree | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 agree | aux |
| 12 | agree | agree | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 feel | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 signal | det |
| 14 | stop | stop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 signal | compound |
| 15 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 agree | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 raising | punct |
| 17 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 18 raising | mark |
| 18 | raising | raise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 agree | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hand | det |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 raising | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | present | Many people | nervous property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | can | dentists | a stop signal | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent signal=Topic | ||||
| 3 | raise | gerund | dentists not said here | a hand | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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:024-sugar-teeth-and-the-dentist.lesson:15.
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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