Getting better, caring for others and medicines, sentence 0

Whether you have a cold or a fever, your body needs drinks and energy to fight the germs; the old saying «feed a cold, starve a fever» is a myth.

Who acts: you, body, old saying · What happens: have, need, fight, feed, starve, be · To what, where: cold, drinks, germs, fever, myth

This is a sentence of the lesson «Getting better, caring for others and medicines» 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 (you, body, old saying), 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	Whether	whether	SCONJ	_	3 have	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 needs	advcl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cold	det
5	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 fever	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fever	det
8	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cold	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 body	nmod:poss
11	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 needs	nsubj
12	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 needs	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 energy	cc
15	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drinks	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 fight	mark
17	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 drinks	acl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 germs	det
19	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fight	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 feed	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 saying	det
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 saying	amod
23	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 myth	nsubj
24	«	«	PUNCT	_	25 feed	punct
25	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 needs	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 cold	det
27	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 feed	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 starve	punct
29	starve	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 feed	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 fever	det
31	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 starve	obj
32	»	»	PUNCT	_	35 myth	punct
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 myth	cop
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 myth	det
35	myth	myth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 needs	parataxis
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 needs	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	present	you	a cold or a fever	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Patient
2	need	present	your body	drinks and energy	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot drink=Theme
3	fight	to-infinitive	your body not said here	the germs	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Co-Agent
4	feed in a quote	infinitive	your body not said here	a cold	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Recipient
5	starve in a quote	infinitive	your body not said here	a fever	tree rules
6	is a	present	the old saying	a myth	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:082-getting-better-and-medicines.lesson:0.

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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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