Colds and flu, sentence 8
Green or yellow snot is coloured by white blood cells fighting the infection and happens in ordinary viral colds too.
Who acts: white blood cells · What happens: colour, fight, happen · To what, where: Green snot, infection, ordinary viral colds
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 (white blood cells), 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 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 snot | amod |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 yellow | cc |
| 3 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Green | conj |
| 4 | snot | snot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 coloured | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 coloured | aux:pass |
| 6 | coloured | colour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 cells | case |
| 8 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cells | amod |
| 9 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cells | compound |
| 10 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 coloured | obl |
| 11 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 cells | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 infection | det |
| 13 | infection | infection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fighting | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 happens | cc |
| 15 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 coloured | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 colds | case |
| 17 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 colds | amod |
| 18 | viral | viral | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 colds | amod |
| 19 | colds | cold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 happens | obl |
| 20 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 happens | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 coloured | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | colour | present · passive | white blood cells | Green snot | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fight | gerund | white blood cells not said here | the infection | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent infection=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | happen | present | white blood cells not said here | ordinary viral colds | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in cold=Location |
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:8.
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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/7-colds-and-flu/8/