Colds and flu, sentence 12
Whether you have a cold or a fever, the body needs fluids and energy; starving a fever is not a good idea.
Who acts: you, body, starving · What happens: have, need, starve, not be · To what, where: cold, fluids, fever, good idea
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 (you, body, starving), 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 | Whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 3 have | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 needs | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cold | det |
| 5 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 fever | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fever | det |
| 8 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cold | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 body | det |
| 11 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 needs | nsubj |
| 12 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | fluids | fluid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 needs | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 energy | cc |
| 15 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fluids | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 needs | punct |
| 17 | starving | starve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 idea | csubj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 fever | det |
| 19 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 starving | obj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 idea | cop |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 idea | advmod |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 idea | det |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 idea | amod |
| 24 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 needs | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 needs | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed polarity=neg
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | you | a cold or a fever | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Patient | ||||
| 2 | need | present | the body | fluids and energy | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fluid=Theme | ||||
| 3 | starve | gerund | a fever | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not is a | present | starving | a good idea | 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:007-colds-and-flu.lesson:12.
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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