Colds and flu, sentence 11
Flu spreads by droplets from coughs and sneezes and on hands and surfaces, and older people and babies can get very ill from it.
Who acts: Flu, older people · What happens: spread, get
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, older people), 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 | Flu | flu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spreads | nsubj |
| 2 | spreads | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 droplets | case |
| 4 | droplets | droplet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spreads | obl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 coughs | case |
| 6 | coughs | cough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 droplets | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sneezes | cc |
| 8 | sneezes | sneeze | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 coughs | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hands | cc |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 hands | case |
| 11 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 droplets | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 surfaces | cc |
| 13 | surfaces | surface | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hands | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 get | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 get | cc |
| 16 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 people | amod |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 get | nsubj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 babies | cc |
| 19 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 people | conj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 get | aux |
| 21 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 spreads | conj |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 ill | advmod |
| 23 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 get | xcomp |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 ill | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spreads | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | present | Flu | by droplets from coughs and sneezes and hands and surfaces | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by droplet=Location | ||||
| 2 | get | can | older people and babies | 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.
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:11.
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. 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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