Changing-room germs, sentence 9
Cold sores are caused by a virus spread by close skin contact, so doctors advise against contact sport while a sore is open.
Who acts: virus, doctors, sore · What happens: cause, spread, advise, be · To what, where: Cold sores, virus
This is a sentence of the lesson «Changing-room germs» 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 (virus, doctors, sore), 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 | Cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sores | amod |
| 2 | sores | sore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 caused | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 caused | aux:pass |
| 4 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 virus | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 virus | det |
| 7 | virus | virus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caused | obl |
| 8 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 virus | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 contact | case |
| 10 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 contact | amod |
| 11 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 contact | compound |
| 12 | contact | contact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spread | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 advise | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 advise | advmod |
| 15 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 advise | nsubj |
| 16 | advise | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 caused | parataxis |
| 17 | against | against | ADP | _ | 19 sport | case |
| 18 | contact | contact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sport | compound |
| 19 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 advise | obl |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 24 open | mark |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 sore | det |
| 22 | sore | sore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 open | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 open | cop |
| 24 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 advise | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 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 | a virus | Cold sores | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | spread | participle | a virus not said here | by close skin contact | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by contact=Location | ||||
| 3 | advise speech: other | present | doctors | against contact sport | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent against sport=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is | present | a sore | open 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:059-changing-room-germs.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): R7-rel-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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