Germs, sneezes and dressing for the weather, sentence 19
A girl with a bad cough kept coughing into the air on the school bus; within a week half her row had caught the same cold.
Who acts: girl, half · What happens: keep, cough, catch · To what, where: air, same cold
This is a sentence of the lesson «Germs, sneezes and dressing for the weather» of the everyday 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 (girl, half), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kept | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 cough | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cough | det |
| 5 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cough | amod |
| 6 | cough | cough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 7 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | coughing | cough | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 kept | xcomp |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 air | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 air | det |
| 11 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 coughing | obl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 bus | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bus | det |
| 14 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bus | compound |
| 15 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 coughing | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 kept | punct |
| 17 | within | within | ADP | _ | 19 week | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 week | det |
| 19 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 caught | obl |
| 20 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 caught | nsubj |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 row | nmod:poss |
| 22 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 caught | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 caught | aux |
| 24 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 kept | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 cold | det |
| 26 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 cold | amod |
| 27 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 caught | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | a girl with a bad cough | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cough | gerund | a girl with a bad cough not said here | the air | on the school bus | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on bus=Destination | |||
| 3 | catch | past · perfect | half | the same cold | week | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme |
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:everyday:079-germs-sneezes-and-dressing-for-the-weather.lesson:19.
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.
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