--- title: Numbing cream put on about an hour before makes the skin numb so a n… — The hospital ward, operations and anaesthetic · tree and pragmatics description: Numbing cream put on about an hour before makes the skin numb so a needle or cannula hurts less. Who acts: Numbing cream, needle. 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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 (Numbing cream, needle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:028-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic.lesson:8 # text = Numbing cream put on about an hour before makes the skin numb so a needle or cannula hurts less. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 028-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Numbing numb VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 amod _ _ 2 cream cream NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 put put VERB VB Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 acl _ _ 4 on on ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 about about ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl 8 before before ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 9 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 numb numb ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 18 mark _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 needle needle NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 cannula cannula NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 19 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 18 advmod _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3: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 | **numb** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **put on** | infinitive | Numbing cream *not said here* | | | | | before *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **make** | present | Numbing cream | the skin | | | | numb *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material skin=Product | | 4 | **hurt** | present | a needle or cannula | | | | | less *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:028-the-hospital-ward-operations-and-anaesthetic.lesson:8`. **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 ×1, 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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