Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters, sentence 11
A splinter is pulled out with clean tweezers at the same angle it went in; digging with a needle can push it deeper, and a deep one, for example under a nail, may need a nurse.
Who acts: splinter, digging, deep one · What happens: pull out, go in, dig, push, need · To what, where: splinter, same angle, nurse
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters» 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 (splinter, digging, deep one), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 splinter | det |
| 2 | splinter | splinter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pulled | aux:pass |
| 4 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 pulled | compound:prt |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 tweezers | case |
| 7 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tweezers | amod |
| 8 | tweezers | tweezer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pulled | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 angle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 angle | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 angle | amod |
| 12 | angle | angle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pulled | obl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 angle | acl:relcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 digging | punct |
| 17 | digging | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 push | csubj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 needle | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 needle | det |
| 20 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 digging | obl |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 push | aux |
| 22 | push | push | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pulled | parataxis |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 push | obj |
| 24 | deeper | deep | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 push | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 need | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 need | cc |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 one | det |
| 28 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 one | amod |
| 29 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 need | nsubj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 one | punct |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 example | case |
| 32 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 need | obl |
| 33 | under | under | ADP | _ | 35 nail | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 nail | det |
| 35 | nail | nail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 example | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 need | punct |
| 37 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 need | aux |
| 38 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 push | conj |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 nurse | det |
| 40 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 need | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull out | present · passive | a splinter | the same angle | with clean tweezers | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go in | past | splinter | the same angle not said here | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location angle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dig | gerund | with a needle | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with needle=Instrument | |||||
| 4 | push | can | digging | splinter | deep property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 5 | need | may | a deep one | a nurse | for example under a nail | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nurse=Theme |
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:004-cuts-grazes-stitches-and-splinters.lesson:11.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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