Sore throats, ears and eyes, sentence 6
Tonsils are lumps at the back of the throat that help fight germs; fewer tonsil operations are done now than in the past, and a few bouts of tonsillitis (sore, swollen tonsils) are not a reason to take them out.
Who acts: Tonsils, throat, sore · What happens: be, help, fight, do, swell, not be · To what, where: lumps, back, germs, fewer tonsil operations, tonsils, reason
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 (Tonsils, throat, sore), 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 | Tonsils | tonsil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lumps | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lumps | cop |
| 3 | lumps | lump | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 back | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 back | det |
| 6 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lumps | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 throat | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 throat | det |
| 9 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 back | nmod |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 help | nsubj |
| 11 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 throat | acl:relcl |
| 12 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 help | xcomp |
| 13 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fight | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 done | punct |
| 15 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 operations | amod |
| 16 | tonsil | tonsil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 operations | compound |
| 17 | operations | operation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 done | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 done | aux:pass |
| 19 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 lumps | parataxis |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 done | advmod |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 past | case |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 past | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 past | det |
| 24 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 done | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 bouts | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 bouts | cc |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 bouts | det |
| 28 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 bouts | amod |
| 29 | bouts | bout | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lumps | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 tonsillitis | case |
| 31 | tonsillitis | tonsillitis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bouts | nmod |
| 32 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 33 sore | punct |
| 33 | sore | sore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bouts | appos |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 swollen | punct |
| 35 | swollen | swell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 sore | acl |
| 36 | tonsils | tonsil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 swollen | obj |
| 37 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 36 tonsils | punct |
| 38 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 reason | cop |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 reason | advmod |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 reason | det |
| 41 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lumps | conj |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 take | mark |
| 43 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 reason | acl |
| 44 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 take | obj |
| 45 | out | out | ADP | _ | 43 take | compound:prt |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lumps | 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 | is a | present | Tonsils | lumps and a few bouts of tonsillitis and a reason | the back of the throat | tree rules | |||
| 2 | help | present | the throat | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | fight | infinitive | the throat not said here | germs | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | do | present · passive | fewer tonsil operations | now | than the past | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | swell | participle | sore not said here | tonsils | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient tonsil=Extent | ||||
| 6 | not is a | present | Tonsils not said here | a reason | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | take out | to-infinitive | Tonsils not said here | tonsils = tonsil | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:009-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes.lesson:6.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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