Germs, sneezes and dressing for the weather, sentence 22
A sneeze can spray droplets more than two metres, so you catch it in a tissue or your elbow.
Who acts: sneeze, you · What happens: spray, catch · To what, where: droplets, adult, tissue
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 (sneeze, you), 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 sneeze | det |
| 2 | sneeze | sneeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spray | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 spray | aux |
| 4 | spray | spray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | droplets | droplet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spray | obj |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 two | advmod |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 metres | case |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 metres | nummod |
| 9 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spray | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 catch | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 catch | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 catch | nsubj |
| 13 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 spray | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 catch | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 tissue | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tissue | det |
| 17 | tissue | tissue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 catch | obl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 elbow | cc |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 elbow | nmod:poss |
| 20 | elbow | elbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tissue | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spray | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spray | can | a sneeze | droplets | than two metres | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent droplet=Theme | |||
| 2 | catch | present | you | adult | a tissue or your elbow | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:22.
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. 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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