--- title: Creams work where they are put, so less medicine goes round the whol… — How medicines work · tree and pragmatics description: Creams work where they are put, so less medicine goes round the whole body; a thin layer as directed is enough. Who acts: Creams, less medicine, thin layer. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Creams, less medicine, thin layer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:017-how-medicines-work.lesson:7 # text = Creams work where they are put, so less medicine goes round the whole body; a thin layer as directed is enough. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 017-how-medicines-work.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): R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Creams cream NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 6 advmod _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 advcl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 9 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 10 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 round round ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obj 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 layer layer NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 20 as as SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 21 directed direct VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 enough enough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 24 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **work** | present | Creams | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **put** | present · passive | | medicine | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | | 3 | **go round** | present | less medicine | the whole body | | | | round *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **direct** | participle | | a thin layer *not said here* | | | | | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | present | a thin layer | | | | | enough *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](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:medicine:017-how-medicines-work.lesson:7`. **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 ×3. **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/). - ← previous: [How medicines work, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/17-how-medicines-work/6/) - next →: [How medicines work, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/17-how-medicines-work/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/17-how-medicines-work/)