Colds and flu, sentence 16
Taking vitamin C every day does not stop most people catching colds; it might shorten a cold slightly in some studies.
Who acts: Taking, most people, cold · What happens: take, not stop, catch, shorten · To what, where: vitamin, most people, colds, cold, studies
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 (Taking, most people, cold), 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 | Taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 stop | csubj |
| 2 | vitamin | vitamin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Taking | obj |
| 3 | C | C | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 vitamin | flat |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Taking | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 stop | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 stop | advmod |
| 8 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 people | amod |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stop | obj |
| 11 | catching | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 people | acl |
| 12 | colds | cold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 catching | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 shorten | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 shorten | nsubj |
| 15 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 shorten | aux |
| 16 | shorten | shorten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 stop | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 cold | det |
| 18 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shorten | obj |
| 19 | slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 16 shorten | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 studies | case |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 studies | det |
| 22 | studies | study | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 shorten | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- hedged
- yes
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=none, hedge=1
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | vitamin | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vitamin=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not stop | present · do-support | Taking | most people | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality people=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | catch | gerund | most people not said here | colds | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme | ||||
| 4 | shorten | might | cold | a cold | some studies | slightly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cold=Patient |
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:16.
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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