Cuts, grazes, stitches and splinters, sentence 16
Some people faint at the sight of blood because their heart slows and blood pressure drops; it is a reflex, not weakness.
Who acts: people, heart, blood pressure, pressure · What happens: faint, slow, drop, be, sight · To what, where: reflex, blood
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 (people, heart, blood pressure, pressure), 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 blood | case |
| 8 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sight | nmod |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 slows | mark |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 heart | nmod:poss |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 slows | nsubj |
| 12 | slows | slow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 faint | advcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 drops | cc |
| 14 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pressure | compound |
| 15 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drops | nsubj |
| 16 | drops | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 slows | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 reflex | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 reflex | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 reflex | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 reflex | det |
| 21 | reflex | reflex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 faint | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 weakness | punct |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 weakness | advmod |
| 24 | weakness | weakness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reflex | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 faint | 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 | faint | present | some people | at the sight of blood | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at sight=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | slow | present | people's heart | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | drop | present | blood pressure | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | pressure | a reflex and weakness | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sight | blood | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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:16.
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): R1-cc-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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