COVID and staying home, sentence 10

COVID can damage the smell-sensing cells in the nose; smell usually returns within weeks, but for some it takes months; losing smell does not mean you are seriously ill.

Who acts: COVID, smell, it, losing, you · What happens: damage, sense, return, take, lose, not mean · To what, where: sensing cells, nose, smell · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «COVID and staying home» 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 (COVID, smell, it, losing), 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	COVID	COVID	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 damage	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 damage	aux
3	damage	damage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cells	det
5	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sensing	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 smell	punct
7	sensing	sense	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 cells	amod
8	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 damage	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 nose	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 nose	det
11	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cells	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 returns	punct
13	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 returns	nsubj
14	usually	usually	ADV	_	15 returns	advmod
15	returns	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 damage	parataxis
16	within	within	ADP	_	17 weeks	case
17	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 returns	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 mean	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 mean	cc
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 some	case
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 takes	obl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 takes	nsubj
23	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 mean	advcl
24	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 takes	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 losing	punct
26	losing	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 mean	csubj
27	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 losing	obj
28	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 mean	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 mean	advmod
30	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 damage	conj
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 ill	nsubj
32	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 ill	cop
33	seriously	seriously	ADV	_	34 ill	advmod
34	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 mean	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 damage	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	damage	can	COVID	the sensing cells	the nose			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Patient
2	sense	gerund						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	return	present	smell			week	usually property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	take	present	it			month	for some	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for some=Beneficiary
5	lose	gerund		smell				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Eventuality
6	not mean	present · do-support	losing					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
7	is	present	you				ill, seriously property	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:medicine:012-covid-and-staying-home.lesson:10.

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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