Colds, coughs and the weather, sentence 17
Washing your hands well is one of the best ways to stop cold viruses spreading.
Who acts: Washing · What happens: wash, be, stop, spread · To what, where: hands, one, cold viruses
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 (Washing), 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 | Washing | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 one | csubj |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 hands | nmod:poss |
| 3 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Washing | obj |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Washing | advmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 one | cop |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 ways | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ways | det |
| 9 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 ways | amod |
| 10 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 stop | mark |
| 12 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ways | acl |
| 13 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 viruses | amod |
| 14 | viruses | virus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stop | obj |
| 15 | spreading | spread | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 stop | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | 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 | wash | gerund | your hands | well property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Washing | one | of the best ways | tree rules | |||
| 3 | stop | to-infinitive | Washing not said here | cold viruses | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | spread | gerund | Washing not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:17.
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. 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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