Needles and brave faces, sentence 7
Distraction, such as counting, looking at a picture, blowing bubbles or squeezing a hand, helps the brain pay less attention to pain, and looking away is not cheating.
Who acts: Distraction, brain · What happens: count, look, blowing, squeeze, help, pay · To what, where: bubbles, hand, brain, less attention
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 (Distraction, brain), 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 | Distraction | distraction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 helps | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 counting | punct |
| 3 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 5 counting | mark |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 3 such | fixed |
| 5 | counting | count | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Distraction | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 looking | punct |
| 7 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 counting | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 picture | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 picture | det |
| 10 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looking | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 blowing | punct |
| 12 | blowing | blowing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 counting | conj |
| 13 | bubbles | bubble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 blowing | obj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 squeezing | cc |
| 15 | squeezing | squeeze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 counting | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hand | det |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 squeezing | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 helps | punct |
| 19 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 brain | det |
| 21 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 helps | obj |
| 22 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 helps | xcomp |
| 23 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 attention | amod |
| 24 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pay | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 pain | case |
| 26 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 attention | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 looking | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 looking | cc |
| 29 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 helps | conj |
| 30 | away | away | ADV | _ | 29 looking | advmod |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 cheating | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 cheating | advmod |
| 33 | cheating | cheat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 helps | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 helps | 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 | count | gerund | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | look | gerund | at a picture | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at picture=Theme | |||||
| 3 | blowing | gerund | bubbles | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | squeeze | gerund | a hand | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||||
| 5 | help | present | Distraction | the brain | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent brain=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | pay | infinitive | the brain not said here | less attention | to pain | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset | |||
| 7 | look away | gerund | Distraction not said here | away property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | not cheat | present · progressive | Distraction not said here | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: 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: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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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