Why we sleep when ill, sentence 7

Appetite often drops during an infection; eating little for a day or two is fine, but drinking enough is important.

Who acts: Appetite, eating, drinking · What happens: drop, eat, be, drink · To what, where: little

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 (Appetite, eating, drinking), 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	Appetite	appetite	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drops	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 drops	advmod
3	drops	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	during	during	ADP	_	6 infection	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 infection	det
6	infection	infection	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drops	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 fine	punct
8	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 fine	csubj
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 eating	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 day	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eating	obl
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 two	cc
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 day	conj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 fine	cop
16	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 drops	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 important	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 important	cc
19	drinking	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 important	csubj
20	enough	enough	ADV	_	19 drinking	advmod
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 important	cop
22	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fine	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drops	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	drop	present	Appetite		during a infection	often property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	gerund		little	day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Patient
3	is	present	eating			fine property	tree rules
4	drink	gerund				enough property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	drinking			important property	tree rules

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:7.

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): R2-punct-next ×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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