Needles and brave faces, sentence 5
For most injections the pain is a quick sharp scratch lasting a few seconds, and friends' stories are often exaggerated.
Who acts: pain, quick sharp scratch · What happens: be, last, exaggerate · To what, where: quick sharp scratch, stories
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 (pain, quick sharp scratch), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 injections | case |
| 2 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 injections | amod |
| 3 | injections | injection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 scratch | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pain | det |
| 5 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 scratch | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 scratch | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 scratch | det |
| 8 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 scratch | amod |
| 9 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 scratch | amod |
| 10 | scratch | scratch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | lasting | last | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 scratch | acl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 seconds | det |
| 13 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 seconds | amod |
| 14 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lasting | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 exaggerated | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 exaggerated | cc |
| 17 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 stories | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 17 friends | case |
| 19 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 exaggerated | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 exaggerated | aux:pass |
| 21 | often | often | ADV | _ | 22 exaggerated | advmod |
| 22 | exaggerated | exaggerate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 scratch | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 scratch | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the pain | a quick sharp scratch | for most injections | tree rules | |||
| 2 | last | gerund | a quick sharp scratch not said here | second | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | exaggerate | present · passive | friends's stories | often 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:032-needles-and-brave-faces.lesson:5.
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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