Medicines, doctors and hospitals, sentence 4
Example: before a new medicine is sold, it is tested on many volunteers and compared with a dummy pill to make sure that it really works and is safe.
Who acts: medicine · What happens: sell, test, compare, make, work, be · To what, where: new medicine, medicine, many volunteers
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), 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 | Example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 tested | punct |
| 3 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 8 sold | mark |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 medicine | det |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 medicine | amod |
| 6 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sold | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sold | aux:pass |
| 8 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 tested | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sold | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 tested | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 tested | aux:pass |
| 12 | tested | test | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Example | appos |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 volunteers | case |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 volunteers | amod |
| 15 | volunteers | volunteer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 tested | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 compared | cc |
| 17 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 tested | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 pill | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 pill | det |
| 20 | dummy | dummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pill | compound |
| 21 | pill | pill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 compared | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 make | mark |
| 23 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 compared | advcl |
| 24 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 make | xcomp |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 works | mark |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 works | nsubj |
| 27 | really | really | ADV | _ | 28 works | advmod |
| 28 | works | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 sure | ccomp |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 safe | cc |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 safe | cop |
| 31 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 works | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Example | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | present · passive | a new medicine | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | test | present · passive | medicine | many volunteers | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | compare | participle | with a dummy pill | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with pill=Co-Patient | |||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | sure property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 5 | work | present | medicine | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | present | medicine not said here | safe 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:4.
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): R5-strong ×3, 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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