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title: A sneeze can spray droplets more than two metres, so you catch it in… — Germs, sneezes and dressing for the weather · tree and pragmatics
description: A sneeze can spray droplets more than two metres, so you catch it in a tissue or your elbow. Who acts: sneeze, you. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Germs, sneezes and dressing for the weather, sentence 22

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A sneeze can spray droplets more than two metres, so you catch it in a tissue or your elbow.

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**Who acts:** sneeze, you · **What happens:** spray, catch · **To what, where:** droplets, adult, tissue

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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 (sneeze, you), 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:22
# text = A sneeze can spray droplets more than two metres, so you catch it in a tissue or your elbow.
# 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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sneeze	sneeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	spray	spray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	droplets	droplet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	catch	catch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	tissue	tissue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	elbow	elbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **spray** | can | a sneeze | droplets |  |  |  | than two metres | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent droplet=Theme |
| 2 | **catch** | present | you | adult |  | a tissue or your elbow |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:22`.

**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.

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

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