Colds and flu, sentence 10
The UK children's flu vaccine is a nasal spray with weakened viruses that cannot cause flu; it changes every year because flu viruses change.
Who acts: flu vaccine, weakened viruses, Flu, flu viruses · What happens: be, weaken, not cause, change · To what, where: nasal spray, flu
This is a sentence of the lesson «Colds and flu» 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 (flu vaccine, weakened viruses, Flu, flu viruses), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 children | det |
| 2 | UK | UK | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 children | compound |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 vaccine | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 children | case |
| 5 | flu | flu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 vaccine | compound |
| 6 | vaccine | vaccine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spray | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 spray | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 spray | det |
| 9 | nasal | nasal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 spray | amod |
| 10 | spray | spray | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 viruses | case |
| 12 | weakened | weaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 viruses | amod |
| 13 | viruses | virus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 spray | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 cause | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 cause | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 cause | advmod |
| 17 | cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 viruses | acl:relcl |
| 18 | flu | flu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cause | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 changes | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 changes | nsubj |
| 21 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 spray | parataxis |
| 22 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 year | det |
| 23 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 changes | obl |
| 24 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 27 change | mark |
| 25 | flu | flu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 viruses | compound |
| 26 | viruses | virus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 change | nsubj |
| 27 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 changes | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 spray | 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 | the UK children's flu vaccine | a nasal spray | with weakened viruses | tree rules | |||
| 2 | weaken | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | not cause | can | weakened viruses | flu | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition flu=Patient | ||||
| 4 | change | present | Flu | year | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | change | present | flu viruses | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:007-colds-and-flu.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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