The hospital ward, operations and anaesthetic, sentence 10
Keyhole surgery uses small cuts and a camera, so healing is usually quicker and scars smaller; appendix operations are often done this way.
Who acts: Keyhole surgery, healing, scars · What happens: use, be, do · To what, where: small cuts, appendix operations
This is a sentence of the lesson «The hospital ward, operations and anaesthetic» 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 (Keyhole surgery, healing, scars), 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 | Keyhole | keyhole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 surgery | compound |
| 2 | surgery | surgery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 uses | nsubj |
| 3 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cuts | amod |
| 5 | cuts | cut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 uses | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 camera | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 camera | det |
| 8 | camera | camera | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cuts | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 healing | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 quicker | advmod |
| 11 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 quicker | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 quicker | cop |
| 13 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 14 quicker | advmod |
| 14 | quicker | quick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 uses | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 smaller | cc |
| 16 | scars | scar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 smaller | nsubj |
| 17 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 quicker | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 done | punct |
| 19 | appendix | appendix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 operations | compound |
| 20 | operations | operation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 done | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 done | aux:pass |
| 22 | often | often | ADV | _ | 23 done | advmod |
| 23 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 uses | conj |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 way | det |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 done | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 uses | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | Keyhole surgery | small cuts and a camera | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cut=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | healing | quick, usually property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | scars | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | do | present · passive | appendix operations | this way obl:unmarked; often property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:028-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic.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): 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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