Sore throats, ears and eyes, sentence 9
Glue ear is sticky fluid left behind the eardrum after a cold that muffles sound; it often clears by itself, and if not, tiny tubes called grommets may help.
Who acts: Glue ear, cold, ear, tiny tubes · What happens: be, leave, muffle, clear, call, help · To what, where: sticky fluid, eardrum, sound, grommets · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Glue ear, cold, ear, tiny tubes), 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 | Glue | glue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ear | compound |
| 2 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fluid | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fluid | cop |
| 4 | sticky | sticky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fluid | amod |
| 5 | fluid | fluid | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 fluid | acl |
| 7 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 9 eardrum | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 eardrum | det |
| 9 | eardrum | eardrum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | obl |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 cold | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cold | det |
| 12 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 left | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 muffles | nsubj |
| 14 | muffles | muffle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 cold | acl:relcl |
| 15 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 muffles | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 clears | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 clears | nsubj |
| 18 | often | often | ADV | _ | 19 clears | advmod |
| 19 | clears | clear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fluid | parataxis |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 itself | case |
| 21 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 19 clears | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 help | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 help | cc |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 not | mark |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 help | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 not | punct |
| 27 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 tubes | amod |
| 28 | tubes | tube | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 help | nsubj |
| 29 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 tubes | acl |
| 30 | grommets | grommet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 called | obj |
| 31 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 help | aux |
| 32 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 clears | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fluid | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Glue ear | sticky fluid | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | participle | sticky fluid not said here | the eardrum | after a cold | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind eardrum=Location | |||
| 3 | muffle | present | a cold | sound | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient | ||||
| 4 | clear | present | ear | by eardrum; often property | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source | ||||
| 5 | call | participle | tiny tubes not said here | grommets | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grommet=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | help | may | tiny tubes | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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:9.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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