Germs, sneezes and dressing for the weather, sentence 8
A cough that lasts for weeks or makes breathing hard needs a doctor, because it can be asthma or an infection.
Who acts: cough · What happens: last, make, breathe, need, be · To what, where: doctor, asthma
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 (cough), 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 cough | det |
| 2 | cough | cough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 needs | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 lasts | nsubj |
| 4 | lasts | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 cough | acl:relcl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 weeks | case |
| 6 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lasts | obl |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 makes | cc |
| 8 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 lasts | conj |
| 9 | breathing | breathe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 makes | obj |
| 10 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 makes | xcomp |
| 11 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 doctor | det |
| 13 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 needs | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 asthma | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 asthma | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 asthma | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 asthma | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 asthma | cop |
| 19 | asthma | asthma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 needs | advcl |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 infection | cc |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 infection | det |
| 22 | infection | infection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 asthma | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 needs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last | present | a cough | week | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | present | a cough not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | breathe | gerund | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | need | present | a cough | a doctor | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot doctor=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is a | can | cough | asthma or a infection | tree rules |
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:8.
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): no change. 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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