Colds, coughs and the weather, sentence 0
"Coat ON, or you'll catch your death!" shouts Nan from the door, and half the country has heard it every winter for a hundred years: cold air, wet hair and rain give you a cold.
Who acts: you, Nan, country, cold air, your · What happens: catch, shout, hear, give, die · To what, where: death, door, cold, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Colds, coughs and the weather» of the myths 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 (you, Nan, country, cold air), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Coat | punct |
| 2 | Coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ON | nmod:desc |
| 3 | ON | ON | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 shouts | parataxis |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 catch | punct |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 catch | cc |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 catch | nsubj |
| 7 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 catch | aux |
| 8 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ON | parataxis |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 death | nmod:poss |
| 10 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 catch | obj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 ON | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ON | punct |
| 13 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Nan | Nan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 shouts | nsubj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 door | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 door | det |
| 17 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shouts | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 heard | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 heard | cc |
| 20 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 22 country | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 country | det |
| 22 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 heard | nsubj |
| 23 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 heard | aux |
| 24 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 shouts | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 heard | obj |
| 26 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 winter | det |
| 27 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 heard | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 years | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 years | det |
| 30 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 years | nummod |
| 31 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 heard | obl |
| 32 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 34 air | punct |
| 33 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 air | amod |
| 34 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 give | nsubj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 hair | punct |
| 36 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 hair | amod |
| 37 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 air | conj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 rain | cc |
| 39 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 air | conj |
| 40 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 shouts | parataxis |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 give | iobj |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 cold | det |
| 43 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 give | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 40 give | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch in a quote | future | you | your death | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | present | Nan | the door | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | hear | present · perfect | half country | death | winter; year | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | give | present | cold air and wet hair and rain | a cold | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient cold=Theme | |||
| 5 | die in a quote | your | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:myths:004-colds-coughs-and-the-weather.lesson:0.
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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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