--- title: Some people faint at the sight of needles or blood because their blo… — Needles and brave faces · tree and pragmatics description: Some people faint at the sight of needles or blood because their blood pressure drops suddenly, and if you've fainted before you can ask to lie down. Who acts: people, blood pressure, you, needles. 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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 (people, blood pressure, you, needles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:032-needles-and-brave-faces.lesson:9 # text = Some people faint at the sight of needles or blood because their blood pressure drops suddenly, and if you've fainted before you can ask to lie down. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 032-needles-and-brave-faces.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 faint faint VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 needles needle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod:poss 13 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 pressure pressure NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:compound 15 drops drop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:advcl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 16 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 if if SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 fainted faint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 23 before before SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 lie lie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 down down ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 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 | **faint** | present | some people | | | | | at the sight of needles or blood | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at sight=Stimulus | | 2 | **drop** | present | needles's blood pressure | | | | | suddenly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **faint** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect | you | | | | | | vn change\_bodily\_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | can | you | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **lie down** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **sight** | | | needles or blood | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 7 | **press** | | needles *= needle* | | | | | | nom pressure «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent | 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:032-needles-and-brave-faces.lesson:9`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Needles and brave faces, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/32-needles-and-brave-faces/7/) - next →: [Needles and brave faces, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/32-needles-and-brave-faces/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/32-needles-and-brave-faces/)