Germs, sneezes and dressing for the weather, sentence 5
Sneezes spray germs a long way, so you sneeze into a tissue or your elbow, not your hands.
Who acts: Sneezes, you · What happens: spray, sneeze · To what, where: germs, hands, 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 (Sneezes, 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 | Sneezes | sneeze | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spray | nsubj |
| 2 | spray | spray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spray | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 way | amod |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spray | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sneeze | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 sneeze | advmod |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 sneeze | nsubj |
| 10 | sneeze | sneeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 spray | parataxis |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 tissue | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tissue | det |
| 13 | tissue | tissue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sneeze | obl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 elbow | cc |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 elbow | nmod:poss |
| 16 | elbow | elbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tissue | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hands | punct |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 hands | advmod |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hands | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sneeze | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 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 | present | Sneezes | germs | a long way obl:unmarked | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent germ=Theme | |||
| 2 | sneeze | present | you | your hands | a tissue or your elbow | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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, 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:5.
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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