Colds and flu, sentence 2
Antibiotics kill bacteria, not viruses, so they do nothing for a cold, even when the snot turns green.
Who acts: Antibiotics, snot · What happens: kill, do, turn · To what, where: bacteria, nothing
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 (Antibiotics, snot), 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 | Antibiotics | antibiotic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kill | nsubj |
| 2 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | bacteria | bacteria | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kill | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 viruses | punct |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 viruses | advmod |
| 6 | viruses | virus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bacteria | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 do | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 kill | parataxis |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 do | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 cold | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cold | det |
| 14 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 do | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 turns | punct |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 turns | advmod |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 turns | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 snot | det |
| 19 | snot | snot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 turns | nsubj |
| 20 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | advcl |
| 21 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 turns | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | present | Antibiotics | bacteria and viruses | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bacteria=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | present | Antibiotics = antibiotic | nothing | for a cold | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | turn | present | the snot | green property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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:2.
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 ×2, 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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