Sore throats, ears and eyes, sentence 15

The voice comes from two vocal cords; shouting can swell them so they cannot vibrate (shake fast) properly, and whispering can strain them too.

Who acts: voice, shouting, cords, whispering · What happens: come, shout, swell, not vibrate, whisper, strain · To what, where: two vocal cords, cords, shake

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sore throats, ears and eyes» 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 (voice, shouting, cords, whispering), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 voice	det
2	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	nsubj
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 cords	case
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 cords	nummod
6	vocal	vocal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cords	amod
7	cords	cord	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 comes	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 shouting	punct
9	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 swell	csubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 swell	aux
11	swell	swell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 comes	parataxis
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 swell	obj
13	so	so	SCONJ	_	17 vibrate	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 vibrate	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 vibrate	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 vibrate	advmod
17	vibrate	vibrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 swell	advcl
18	(	(	PUNCT	_	19 shake	punct
19	shake	shake	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 vibrate	obj
20	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 shake	advmod
21	)	)	PUNCT	_	19 shake	punct
22	properly	properly	ADV	_	17 vibrate	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 strain	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 strain	cc
25	whispering	whisper	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 strain	csubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 strain	aux
27	strain	strain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 swell	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 strain	obj
29	too	too	ADV	_	27 strain	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 comes	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present	the voice		two vocal cords		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from cord=Initial_Location
2	shout speech: express	gerund					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	swell	can	shouting	cords = cord			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient they=Extent
4	not vibrate	can	cords = cord	shake		properly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent shake=Patient
5	whisper speech: assert	gerund					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	strain	can	whispering	cords = cord			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source

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:009-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes.lesson:15.

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): 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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