Germs, sneezes and dressing for the weather, sentence 2

Many sayings about germs are myths: wet hair does not give you a cold, food on the floor picks up germs at once, and antibiotics do not cure colds, because they only work on bacteria.

Who acts: Many sayings, wet hair, food, antibiotics · What happens: be, not give, pick up, not cure, work · To what, where: myths, cold, you, germs, colds

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 (Many sayings, wet hair, food, antibiotics), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sayings	amod
2	sayings	saying	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 myths	nsubj
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 germs	case
4	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sayings	nmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 myths	cop
6	myths	myth	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 give	punct
8	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hair	amod
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	nsubj
10	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 give	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 give	advmod
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 myths	parataxis
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 give	iobj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cold	det
15	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 picks	punct
17	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 picks	nsubj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 floor	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 floor	det
20	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 food	nmod
21	picks	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 give	parataxis
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 picks	compound:prt
23	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 picks	obj
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 once	case
25	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	21 picks	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 cure	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 cure	cc
28	antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 cure	nsubj
29	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 cure	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 cure	advmod
31	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 give	conj
32	colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 cure	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 work	punct
34	because	because	SCONJ	_	37 work	mark
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 work	nsubj
36	only	only	ADV	_	37 work	advmod
37	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 cure	advcl
38	on	on	ADP	_	39 bacteria	case
39	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 work	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 myths	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Many sayings about germs	myths			tree rules
2	not give	present · do-support	wet hair	a cold	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient cold=Theme
3	pick up	present	food on the floor	germs			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Topic
4	not cure	present · do-support	antibiotics	colds			vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer cold=Source
5	work	present	antibiotics = antibiotic			on bacteria	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on bacteria=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:2.

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. 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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