Why we sleep when ill, sentence 10
Light layers and drinks are better than piling on heavy blankets, which can make a fever higher and more uncomfortable.
Who acts: Light layers, heavy blankets · What happens: be, pile, make · To what, where: heavy blankets, fever
This is a sentence of the lesson «Why we sleep when ill» 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 (Light layers, heavy blankets), 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 | Light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 layers | amod |
| 2 | layers | layer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 better | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 drinks | cc |
| 4 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 layers | conj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 better | cop |
| 6 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 8 piling | mark |
| 8 | piling | pile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 better | advcl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 blankets | case |
| 10 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 blankets | amod |
| 11 | blankets | blanket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 piling | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 make | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 make | aux |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 blankets | acl:relcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fever | det |
| 17 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 make | obj |
| 18 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 make | xcomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 uncomfortable | cc |
| 20 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 uncomfortable | advmod |
| 21 | uncomfortable | uncomfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 higher | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 better | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Light layers and drinks | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pile | gerund | Light layers and drinks not said here | heavy blankets | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on blanket=Destination | ||||
| 3 | make | can | heavy blankets | a fever | high property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fever=Product |
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:031-why-we-sleep-when-ill.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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