Colds, coughs and the weather, sentence 16
Chicken soup does not cure a cold, but warm drinks and soup can soothe a sore throat and help you drink enough.
Who acts: Chicken soup, warm drinks, you · What happens: not cure, soothe, help, drink · To what, where: cold, sore throat, you
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 (Chicken soup, warm drinks, you), 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 | Chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 soup | compound |
| 2 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cure | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cure | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 cure | advmod |
| 5 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cold | det |
| 7 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cure | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 soothe | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 soothe | cc |
| 10 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 drinks | amod |
| 11 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 soothe | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 soup | cc |
| 13 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drinks | conj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 soothe | aux |
| 15 | soothe | soothe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cure | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 throat | det |
| 17 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 throat | amod |
| 18 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 soothe | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 help | cc |
| 20 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 soothe | conj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 help | obj |
| 22 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 help | xcomp |
| 23 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 22 drink | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cure | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cure | present · do-support | Chicken soup | a cold | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer cold=Source | ||||
| 2 | soothe | can | warm drinks and soup | a sore throat | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus throat=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | help | infinitive | warm drinks and soup not said here | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | drink | infinitive | you not said here | enough property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:16.
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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