Colds and flu, sentence 3

Flu is caused by influenza viruses and is much worse than a cold: it comes on suddenly, with high fever and aching all over, as if you'd been hit by a bus.

Who acts: influenza viruses, cold · What happens: cause, be, come on, ache, hit · To what, where: Flu, you

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 (influenza viruses, 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	Flu	flu	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caused	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 caused	aux:pass
3	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 viruses	case
5	influenza	influenza	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 viruses	compound
6	viruses	virus	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 caused	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 worse	cc
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 worse	cop
9	much	much	ADV	_	10 worse	advmod
10	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 caused	conj
11	than	than	ADP	_	13 cold	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cold	det
13	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 worse	obl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 comes	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 comes	nsubj
16	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 caused	parataxis
17	on	on	ADV	_	16 comes	advmod
18	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	16 comes	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fever	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 fever	case
21	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fever	amod
22	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 comes	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 aching	cc
24	aching	ache	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 caused	conj
25	all	all	ADV	_	26 over	advmod
26	over	over	ADV	_	24 aching	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 hit	punct
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 hit	mark
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 hit	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 hit	nsubj
31	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 hit	aux
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 hit	aux:pass
33	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 caused	conj
34	by	by	ADP	_	36 bus	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 bus	det
36	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hit	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 caused	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cause	present · passive	influenza viruses	Flu		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient
2	is	present	influenza viruses not said here		than a cold; bad property	tree rules
3	come on	present	cold		with high fever; suddenly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ache	gerund	influenza viruses not said here		over property	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	hit a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive		you	by a bus	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme by bus=Destination

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:3.

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, R8-pos-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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