Needles and brave faces, sentence 6
Numbing cream or cold spray, sitting on a parent's lap and distraction all make needles easier, and children can ask for them.
Who acts: Numbing cream, children · What happens: numb, sit, make, ask · To what, where: lap, needles
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 (Numbing cream, children), 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 | 16 make | nsubj |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 spray | cc |
| 4 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 spray | amod |
| 5 | spray | spray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cream | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sitting | punct |
| 7 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 cream | acl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 lap | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 parent | det |
| 10 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lap | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 parent | case |
| 12 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sitting | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 distraction | cc |
| 14 | distraction | distraction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lap | conj |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 make | advmod |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | needles | needle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 make | obj |
| 18 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 make | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ask | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ask | cc |
| 21 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 ask | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 ask | aux |
| 23 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 make | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 ask | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | 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 | sit | gerund | Numbing cream or cold spray not said here | a parent's lap and distraction | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on lap=Location | ||||
| 3 | make | present | Numbing cream or cold spray | needles | easy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material needle=Product | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | can | children | for cream | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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:6.
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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