The hospital ward, operations and anaesthetic, sentence 8
Numbing cream put on about an hour before makes the skin numb so a needle or cannula hurts less.
Who acts: Numbing cream, needle · What happens: numb, put on, make, hurt · To what, where: skin
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 (Numbing cream, needle), 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 | Numbing | numb | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 cream | amod |
| 2 | cream | cream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 cream | acl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 put | compound:prt |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 hour | advmod |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hour | det |
| 7 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 before | obl |
| 8 | before | before | ADV | _ | 3 put | advmod |
| 9 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 skin | det |
| 11 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 makes | obj |
| 12 | numb | numb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 makes | xcomp |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 hurts | mark |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 needle | det |
| 15 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hurts | nsubj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 cannula | cc |
| 17 | cannula | cannula | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 needle | conj |
| 18 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 makes | advcl |
| 19 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 hurts | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | numb | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | put on | infinitive | Numbing cream not said here | before property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | make | present | Numbing cream | the skin | numb property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material skin=Product | |||
| 4 | hurt | present | a needle or cannula | less property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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:8.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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