Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and friends, sentence 1
Chickenpox is a virus: red spots turn into blisters and then crust over in about a week, and it spreads very easily, so you stay home till all the spots have crusted.
Who acts: Chickenpox, red spots, you, spots · What happens: be, turn, crust over, spread, stay, crust · To what, where: virus, blisters
This is a sentence of the lesson «Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and friends» of the medicine 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 (Chickenpox, red spots, you, spots), 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 | Chickenpox | chickenpox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 virus | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 virus | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 virus | det |
| 4 | virus | virus | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 turn | punct |
| 6 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spots | amod |
| 7 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 turn | nsubj |
| 8 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 virus | parataxis |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 blisters | case |
| 10 | blisters | blister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 turn | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 crust | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 crust | advmod |
| 13 | crust | crust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 turn | conj |
| 14 | over | over | ADV | _ | 13 crust | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 week | case |
| 16 | about | about | ADV | _ | 18 week | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 week | det |
| 18 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 crust | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 spreads | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 spreads | cc |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 spreads | nsubj |
| 22 | spreads | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 turn | conj |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 easily | advmod |
| 24 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 22 spreads | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 stay | punct |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 stay | advmod |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 stay | nsubj |
| 28 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 spreads | parataxis |
| 29 | home | home | ADV | _ | 28 stay | advmod |
| 30 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 35 crusted | mark |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 spots | det:predet |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 spots | det |
| 33 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 crusted | nsubj |
| 34 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 crusted | aux |
| 35 | crusted | crust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 stay | advcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 virus | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Chickenpox | a virus | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | turn | present | red spots | blisters | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into blister=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | crust over | present | red spots not said here | then; week | over property | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | spread | present | Chickenpox | easily property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | stay | present | you | home property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | crust | present · perfect | all spots | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:medicine:011-spots-and-itches-chickenpox-head-lice-and-friends.lesson:1.
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): R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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