--- title: Green snot does not always mean bacteria: the colour comes from a su… — The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneez… · tree and pragmatics description: Green snot does not always mean bacteria: the colour comes from a substance in white blood cells fighting germs. Who acts: Green snot, colour, white blood cells. A sentence of the lesson «The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups and poo» of the biology course of Mova's primary sch --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/364-the-body-s-rough-side-burps-farts-snot-sneezes-hiccups-and-poo/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The body's rough side: burps, farts, s…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/364-the-body-s-rough-side-burps-farts-snot-sneezes-hiccups-and-poo/) / 9 # The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups and poo, sentence 9 Green snot does not always mean bacteria: the colour comes from a substance in white blood cells fighting germs. **Who acts:** Green snot, colour, white blood cells · **What happens:** not mean, come, fight · **To what, where:** bacteria, substance, germs This is a sentence of the lesson «The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups and poo» 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 (Green snot, colour, white blood cells), 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:9 # text = Green snot does not always mean bacteria: the colour comes from a substance in white blood cells fighting germs. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 snot snot NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 5 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 6 advmod _ _ 6 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 bacteria bacteria NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 substance substance NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:obl 19 fighting fight VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 acl _ _ 20 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | Green snot | bacteria | | | | always *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bacteria=Topic | | 2 | **come** | present | the colour | | | a substance in white blood cells | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from substance=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **fight** | gerund | white blood cells *not said here* | germs | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Co-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:9`. **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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