--- title: A cough that lasts for weeks or makes breathing hard needs a doctor,… — Germs, sneezes and dressing for the weather · tree and pragmatics description: A cough that lasts for weeks or makes breathing hard needs a doctor, because it can be asthma or an infection. Who acts: cough. 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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 (cough), 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:8 # text = A cough that lasts for weeks or makes breathing hard needs a doctor, because it can be asthma or an infection. # 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): no change 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cough cough NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 lasts last VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 or or CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 9 breathing breathe VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 obj _ _ 10 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 11 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 cop _ _ 19 asthma asthma NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 advcl _ _ 20 or or CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 infection infection NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **last** | present | a cough | | | | week | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **make** | present | a cough *not said here* | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **breathe** | gerund | | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **need** | present | a cough | a doctor | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot doctor=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | can | cough | asthma or a infection | | | | | tree rules | 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:everyday:079-germs-sneezes-and-dressing-for-the-weather.lesson:8`. **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): no change. **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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