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title: Tablets, less salt and more exercise can lower high blood pressure,… — Hospitals, operations and serious illness · tree and pragmatics
description: Tablets, less salt and more exercise can lower high blood pressure, and measuring it only feels like a tight squeeze. Who acts: Tablets, measuring. A sentence of the lesson «Hospitals, operations and serious illness» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
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# Hospitals, operations and serious illness, sentence 16

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Tablets, less salt and more exercise can lower high blood pressure, and measuring it only feels like a tight squeeze.

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**Who acts:** Tablets, measuring · **What happens:** low, measure, feel · **To what, where:** high blood pressure, pressure

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hospitals, operations and serious illness» of the adult life 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 (Tablets, measuring), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:021-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness.lesson:16
# text = Tablets, less salt and more exercise can lower high blood pressure, and measuring it only feels like a tight squeeze.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 021-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	Tablets	tablet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	exercise	exercise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	lower	low	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	measuring	measure	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:nsubj
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	squeeze	squeeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **low** | can | Tablets and less salt and more exercise | high blood pressure |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pressure=Theme |
| 2 | **measure** | gerund |  | pressure |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme it=Value |
| 3 | **feel** | present | measuring |  |  |  |  | like a tight squeeze | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like squeeze=Theme |

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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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:021-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness.lesson:16`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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