Needles and brave faces, sentence 9

Some people faint at the sight of needles or blood because their blood pressure drops suddenly, and if you've fainted before you can ask to lie down.

Who acts: people, blood pressure, you, needles · What happens: faint, drop, ask, lie down, sight, press · To what, where: 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 (people, blood pressure, you, needles), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 people	det
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 faint	nsubj
3	faint	faint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 sight	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sight	det
6	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 faint	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 needles	case
8	needles	needle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sight	nmod
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 blood	cc
10	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 needles	conj
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 drops	mark
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 pressure	nmod:poss
13	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pressure	compound
14	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 drops	nsubj
15	drops	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 faint	advcl
16	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	15 drops	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fainted	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fainted	cc
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 fainted	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 fainted	nsubj
21	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 fainted	aux
22	fainted	faint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 faint	conj
23	before	before	SCONJ	_	26 ask	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 ask	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 ask	aux
26	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 fainted	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 lie	mark
28	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 ask	xcomp
29	down	down	ADP	_	28 lie	compound:prt
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 faint	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	faint	present	some people		at the sight of needles or blood	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at sight=Stimulus
2	drop	present	needles's blood pressure		suddenly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	faint a condition, not said to happen	present · perfect	you			vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	ask speech: ask	can	you			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	lie down not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sight			needles or blood		nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient
7	press		needles = needle			nom pressure «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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:9.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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