--- title: A sneeze is a reflex that clears the nose, and about 1 person in 4 a… — The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneez… · tree and pragmatics description: A sneeze is a reflex that clears the nose, and about 1 person in 4 also sneezes at bright light; fast-camera tests found the air much slower than the 160 kilometres an hour people say, but droplets can float several metres. Who acts: sneeze, reflex, 1 person, camera tests. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sneeze, reflex, 1 person, camera tests), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:364-the-body-s-rough-side-burps-farts-snot-sneezes-hiccups-and-poo.lesson:11 # text = A sneeze is a reflex that clears the nose, and about 1 person in 4 also sneezes at bright light; fast-camera tests found the air much slower than the 160 kilometres an hour people say, but droplets can float several metres. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 364-the-body-s-rough-side-burps-farts-snot-sneezes-hiccups-and-poo.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sneeze sneeze NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 reflex reflex NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 7 clears clear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=7:cc 12 about about ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 14 nmod _ _ 17 also also ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 sneezes sneeze VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ 23 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 25 camera camera NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 tests test NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 much much ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 slower slow ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:ccomp 32 than than ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 160 160 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 36 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:det 37 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:compound 38 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 39 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 but but CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=27:cc 42 droplets droplet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nsubj _ _ 43 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 float float VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 45 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 obj _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a sneeze | a reflex | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **clear** | present | a reflex | the nose | | | | | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent nose=Source | | 3 | **sneeze** | present | 1 person in 4 | | | bright light | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **find** | past | camera tests | | | | | slow *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | people | the 160 kilometres a hour *not said here* | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent kilometre=Topic | | 6 | **float** | can | droplets | several metres | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent metre=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:364-the-body-s-rough-side-burps-farts-snot-sneezes-hiccups-and-poo.lesson:11`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×2, 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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