Needles and brave faces, sentence 3
Nurses have a whole kit of tricks for this: numbing cream or cold spray, sitting on a parent's lap, blowing bubbles, a video, a hand to squeeze, and an honest answer to every question.
Who acts: Nurses, whole kit · What happens: have, numb, sit, blowing, squeeze · To what, where: whole kit, honest answer, lap, bubbles
This is a sentence of the lesson «Needles and brave faces» 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 (Nurses, whole kit), 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 | Nurses | nurse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 kit | det |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kit | amod |
| 5 | kit | kit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 tricks | case |
| 7 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 kit | nmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 this | case |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 tricks | nmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 numbing | punct |
| 11 | numbing | numb | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 kit | acl |
| 12 | cream | cream | NOUN | _ | 5 kit | appos |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 cold | cc |
| 14 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cream | conj |
| 15 | spray | spray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cream | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sitting | punct |
| 17 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 numbing | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 lap | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 parent | det |
| 20 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lap | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 parent | case |
| 22 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sitting | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 blowing | punct |
| 24 | blowing | blowing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 sitting | conj |
| 25 | bubbles | bubble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 blowing | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 video | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 video | det |
| 28 | video | video | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lap | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 hand | punct |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 hand | det |
| 31 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lap | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 squeeze | mark |
| 33 | squeeze | squeeze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 hand | acl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 answer | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 answer | cc |
| 36 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 answer | det |
| 37 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 answer | amod |
| 38 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 numbing | obl |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 question | case |
| 40 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 question | det |
| 41 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 answer | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Nurses | a whole kit of tricks for this | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kit=Patient | ||||
| 2 | numb | gerund | a whole kit of tricks for this not said here | a honest answer to every question | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | sit | gerund | a whole kit of tricks for this not said here | a parent's lap and a video and a hand | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on lap=Location | ||||
| 4 | blowing | gerund | a whole kit of tricks for this not said here | bubbles | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | squeeze | to-infinitive | a whole kit of tricks for this not said here | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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:032-needles-and-brave-faces.lesson:3.
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 ×2, R6-punct-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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