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title: A girl with a bad cough kept coughing into the air on the school bus… — Germs, sneezes and dressing for the weather · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl with a bad cough kept coughing into the air on the school bus; within a week half her row had caught the same cold. Who acts: girl, half. A sentence of the lesson «Germs, sneezes and dressing for the weather» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Germs, sneezes and dressing for the weather, sentence 19

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A girl with a bad cough kept coughing into the air on the school bus; within a week half her row had caught the same cold.

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**Who acts:** girl, half · **What happens:** keep, cough, catch · **To what, where:** air, same cold

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Germs, sneezes and dressing for the weather» of the everyday 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 (girl, half), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:079-germs-sneezes-and-dressing-for-the-weather.lesson:19
# text = A girl with a bad cough kept coughing into the air on the school bus; within a week half her row had caught the same cold.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 079-germs-sneezes-and-dressing-for-the-weather.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cough	cough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	coughing	cough	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	bus	bus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
17	within	within	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
20	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:nmod
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:obj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | a girl with a bad cough |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cough** | gerund | a girl with a bad cough *not said here* |  |  | the air |  | on the school bus | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Agent on bus=Destination |
| 3 | **catch** | past · perfect | half | the same cold |  |  | week |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme |

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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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**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:everyday:079-germs-sneezes-and-dressing-for-the-weather.lesson:19`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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