Germs, sneezes and dressing for the weather, sentence 9
Colds, flu and cold sores spread through spit, so everyone uses their own cup or bottle.
Who acts: Colds, everyone · What happens: spread, use · To what, where: spit, own cup
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 (Colds, everyone), 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 | Colds | cold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spread | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 flu | punct |
| 3 | flu | flu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Colds | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sores | cc |
| 5 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sores | amod |
| 6 | sores | sore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Colds | conj |
| 7 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 spit | case |
| 9 | spit | spit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spread | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 uses | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 uses | advmod |
| 12 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 13 uses | nsubj |
| 13 | uses | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 spread | conj |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 cup | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cup | amod |
| 16 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 uses | obj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 bottle | cc |
| 18 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cup | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | present | Colds and flu and cold sores | spit | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through spit=Location | ||||
| 2 | use | present | everyone | Colds's own cup or bottle | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Patient |
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:9.
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): R1-cc-next ×2, R3-conj-first ×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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