Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and friends, sentence 5
Chickenpox is caused by the varicella-zoster virus; spots become blisters and crust over in about a week, and children stay home until all spots have crusted; it is usually mild, but some children get very ill with it.
Who acts: zoster virus, spots, children, Chickenpox · What happens: cause, become, crust over, stay, crust, be · To what, where: Chickenpox, blisters, spots
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 (zoster virus, spots, children, Chickenpox), 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 | 3 caused | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 caused | aux:pass |
| 3 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 virus | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 virus | det |
| 6 | varicella | varicella | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 zoster | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 varicella | punct |
| 8 | zoster | zoster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 virus | compound |
| 9 | virus | virus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caused | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 spots | punct |
| 11 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 become | nsubj |
| 12 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 caused | parataxis |
| 13 | blisters | blister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 become | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 crust | cc |
| 15 | crust | crust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 become | conj |
| 16 | over | over | ADV | _ | 15 crust | advmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 week | case |
| 18 | about | about | ADV | _ | 20 week | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 week | det |
| 20 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 crust | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stay | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 stay | cc |
| 23 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 stay | nsubj |
| 24 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 caused | conj |
| 25 | home | home | ADV | _ | 24 stay | advmod |
| 26 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 30 crusted | mark |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 spots | det |
| 28 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 crusted | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 crusted | aux |
| 30 | crusted | crust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 stay | advcl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 mild | punct |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 mild | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 mild | cop |
| 34 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 35 mild | advmod |
| 35 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 caused | parataxis |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 get | punct |
| 37 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 get | cc |
| 38 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 39 children | det |
| 39 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 get | nsubj |
| 40 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 caused | conj |
| 41 | very | very | ADV | _ | 42 ill | advmod |
| 42 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 get | xcomp |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 it | case |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 ill | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | present · passive | the zoster virus | Chickenpox | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | become | present | spots | blisters | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | crust over | present | spots not said here | week | over property | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | stay | present | children | home property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | crust | present · perfect · passive | all spots | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | is | present | Chickenpox | mild, usually property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | get | present | some children | ill property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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.
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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, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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