COVID and staying home, sentence 9

In 2020 and 2021 governments asked people to wear masks, keep apart and stay home to slow the spread before there were vaccines.

Who acts: governments, vaccines · What happens: ask, wear, keep, stay, slow, be · To what, where: people, 2020, masks, spread

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 (governments, vaccines), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 2020	case
2	2020	2020	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 asked	obl
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 2021	cc
4	2021	2021	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 2020	conj
5	governments	government	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 asked	nsubj
6	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 asked	iobj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 wear	mark
9	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 asked	xcomp
10	masks	mask	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wear	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 keep	punct
12	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wear	conj
13	apart	apart	ADV	_	12 keep	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stay	cc
15	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 keep	conj
16	home	home	ADV	_	15 stay	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 slow	mark
18	slow	slow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 stay	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 spread	det
20	spread	spread	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 slow	obj
21	before	before	SCONJ	_	23 were	mark
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 were	expl
23	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 slow	advcl
24	vaccines	vaccine	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 were	nsubj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 asked	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	governments		people	2020		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic
2	wear not said to happen	to-infinitive	governments not said here	masks				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mask=Theme
3	keep	infinitive	governments not said here				apart property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	stay	infinitive	governments not said here				home property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	slow	to-infinitive	governments not said here	the spread				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent spread=Patient
6	be	past	vaccines			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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