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title: When your friend sneezes and you catch his cold, viruses in tiny dro… — The microscopic world: viruses and vaccines · tree and pragmatics
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# The microscopic world: viruses and vaccines, sentence 2

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When your friend sneezes and you catch his cold, viruses in tiny drops got into the cells of your nose, and soon those cells were busy making more viruses instead of doing their own job.

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**Who acts:** friend, you, viruses, cells, drops · **What happens:** sneeze, catch, get, be, make, do · **To what, where:** cold, cells, more viruses, own job

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The microscopic world: viruses and vaccines» of the biology 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 (friend, you, viruses, cells), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:258-the-microscopic-world-viruses-and-vaccines.lesson:2
# text = When your friend sneezes and you catch his cold, viruses in tiny drops got into the cells of your nose, and soon those cells were busy making more viruses instead of doing their own job.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 258-the-microscopic-world-viruses-and-vaccines.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sneezes	sneeze	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advcl
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	catch	catch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advcl
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	viruses	virus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
25	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	busy	busy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
29	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
30	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	amod	_	_
31	viruses	virus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	34	mark	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	fixed	_	_
34	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
36	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sneeze** | present | your friend |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **catch** | present | you | friend's cold |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | past | viruses in tiny drops |  |  | the cells of your nose |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into cell=Destination |
| 4 | **is** | past | that cells |  |  |  |  | busy, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | gerund | that cells *not said here* | more viruses |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset virus=Product |
| 6 | **do** | gerund | that cells *not said here* | drops's own job |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality |
| 7 | **job** |  | drops *= drop* |  |  |  |  |  | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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. **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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