The GP, the family doctor and the nurse, sentence 10

A blood test takes only a little blood from the arm or hand, through a small needle, often after numbing cream, and the body replaces it quickly.

Who acts: blood test, body · What happens: take, numb, replace · To what, where: little blood, arm, cream

This is a sentence of the lesson «The GP, the family doctor and the nurse» 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 (blood test, body), 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 test	det
2	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 test	compound
3	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 takes	nsubj
4	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	8 blood	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 blood	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 blood	amod
8	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 takes	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 arm	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 arm	det
11	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 takes	obl
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 hand	cc
13	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 arm	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 needle	punct
15	through	through	ADP	_	18 needle	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 needle	det
17	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 needle	amod
18	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 takes	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 numbing	punct
20	often	often	ADV	_	22 numbing	advmod
21	after	after	SCONJ	_	22 numbing	mark
22	numbing	numb	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 takes	advcl
23	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 numbing	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 replaces	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 replaces	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 body	det
27	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 replaces	nsubj
28	replaces	replace	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 takes	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 replaces	obj
30	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	28 replaces	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 takes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	present	a blood test	a little blood	the arm or hand	through a small needle	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent blood=Theme from arm=Initial_Location
2	numb	gerund	a blood test not said here	cream		often property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus cream=Experiencer
3	replace	present	the body	cream		quickly property	vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-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:025-the-gp-the-family-doctor-and-the-nurse.lesson:10.

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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