Medicines, doctors and hospitals, sentence 0
A medicine is a substance that helps the body fight an illness, eases pain or prevents a disease; the right amount, called the dose, helps, but too much can be dangerous.
Who acts: medicine, substance, body, right amount, much · What happens: be, help, fight, ease, prevent, call · To what, where: substance, body, illness, pain, disease, dose · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Medicines, doctors and hospitals» of the world 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 (medicine, substance, body, right amount), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 medicine | det |
| 2 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 substance | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 substance | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 substance | det |
| 5 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 helps | nsubj |
| 7 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 substance | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 body | det |
| 9 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 helps | obj |
| 10 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 helps | xcomp |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 illness | det |
| 12 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fight | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 eases | punct |
| 14 | eases | ease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 helps | conj |
| 15 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 eases | obj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 prevents | cc |
| 17 | prevents | prevent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 eases | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 disease | det |
| 19 | disease | disease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 prevents | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 amount | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 amount | det |
| 22 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 amount | amod |
| 23 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 helps | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 substance | punct |
| 25 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 amount | acl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 dose | det |
| 27 | dose | dose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 called | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 helps | punct |
| 29 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 substance | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 dangerous | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 dangerous | cc |
| 32 | too | too | ADV | _ | 33 much | advmod |
| 33 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 dangerous | nsubj |
| 34 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 dangerous | aux |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 dangerous | cop |
| 36 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 helps | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 substance | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a medicine | a substance | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | help | present | a substance | the body | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent body=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fight | infinitive | the body not said here | a illness | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent illness=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | ease | present | a substance not said here | pain | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pain=Patient | ||||
| 5 | prevent | present | a substance not said here | a disease | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer disease=Theme | ||||
| 6 | call | participle | the right amount not said here | the dose | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dose=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | help | present | the right amount | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | is | can | much | dangerous property | tree rules |
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:world:094-medicines-doctors-hospitals.lesson:0.
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, R8-pos-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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