Sore throats, ears and eyes, sentence 8

If the pressure gets very high the eardrum can get a tiny hole that lets pus out and eases the pain; it usually heals in a few weeks.

Who acts: pressure, eardrum, tiny hole · What happens: get, let, ease, heal · To what, where: tiny hole, pus, pain

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 (pressure, eardrum, tiny hole), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 gets	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pressure	det
3	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gets	nsubj
4	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 get	advcl
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 high	advmod
6	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gets	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 eardrum	det
8	eardrum	eardrum	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 get	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 get	aux
10	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hole	det
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hole	amod
13	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 get	obj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 lets	nsubj
15	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 hole	acl:relcl
16	pus	pus	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lets	obj
17	out	out	ADV	_	16 pus	advmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 eases	cc
19	eases	ease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 lets	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 pain	det
21	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 eases	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 heals	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 heals	nsubj
24	usually	usually	ADV	_	25 heals	advmod
25	heals	heal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 get	parataxis
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 weeks	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 weeks	det
28	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 weeks	amod
29	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 heals	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 get	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	get a condition, not said to happen	present	the pressure			high property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	get	can	the eardrum	a tiny hole			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hole=Stimulus
3	let	present	a tiny hole	pus			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pus=Theme
4	ease	present	a tiny hole not said here	the pain			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pain=Patient
5	heal	present	eardrum		week	usually property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:009-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes.lesson:8.

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 ×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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