Colds and flu, sentence 7

Wet hair and cold weather do not create cold viruses; colds are commoner in winter mostly because people are indoors close together.

Who acts: Wet hair, colds, people · What happens: not create, be · To what, where: cold viruses

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 (Wet hair, colds, 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	Wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hair	amod
2	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 create	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 weather	cc
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 weather	amod
5	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hair	conj
6	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 create	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 create	advmod
8	create	create	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 viruses	amod
10	viruses	virus	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 create	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 commoner	punct
12	colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 commoner	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 commoner	cop
14	commoner	common	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 create	parataxis
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 winter	case
16	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 commoner	obl
17	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	22 close	advmod
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 close	mark
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 close	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 close	cop
21	indoors	indoors	ADV	_	22 close	advmod
22	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 commoner	advcl
23	together	together	ADV	_	22 close	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 create	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not create	present · do-support	Wet hair and cold weather	cold viruses			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent virus=Result
2	is	present	colds		winter	common property	tree rules
3	is	present	people			close, indoors, mostly, together property	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:7.

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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