Colds, coughs and the weather, sentence 10

"Feed a cold, starve a fever" is an old saying; doctors say with either one you should drink plenty and eat when you feel hungry.

Who acts: you, doctors · What happens: feed, starve, be, say, drink, eat · To what, where: cold, fever, old saying, plenty · 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, doctors), 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 Feed	punct
2	Feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 starve	conj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cold	det
4	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Feed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 starve	punct
6	starve	starve	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fever	det
8	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 starve	obj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 fever	punct
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 saying	cop
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 saying	det
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 saying	amod
13	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 starve	ccomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
15	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 say	nsubj
16	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 starve	parataxis
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 one	case
18	either	either	DET	_	19 one	det
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 drink	obl
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 drink	nsubj
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 drink	aux
22	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 say	ccomp
23	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 drink	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 eat	cc
25	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 drink	conj
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 feel	advmod
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 feel	nsubj
28	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 eat	advcl
29	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 feel	xcomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 starve	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feed in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	a cold		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Recipient
2	starve in a quote	imperative	you not said here	a fever		tree rules
3	is a	present	you not said here	a old saying		tree rules
4	say speech: assert	present	doctors			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	drink	should	you	plenty	with either one	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient
6	eat	infinitive	you not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	feel	present	you		hungry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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:10.

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, R6-punct-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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