--- title: A boy in Ohio stopped his antibiotics after two days because he felt… — Getting better, caring for others and medicines · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Ohio stopped his antibiotics after two days because he felt better; the ear infection came back worse and he needed a second, longer course. Who acts: boy, ear infection, infection. 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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 (boy, ear infection, infection), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:082-getting-better-and-medicines.lesson:15 # text = A boy in Ohio stopped his antibiotics after two days because he felt better; the ear infection came back worse and he needed a second, longer course. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 082-getting-better-and-medicines.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 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Ohio Ohio PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 antibiotics antibiotic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 after after ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 11 because because SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 14 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 13 advmod _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 infection infection NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 20 back back ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 xcomp _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 26 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 29 amod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 longer long ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 amod _ _ 29 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | past | a boy in Ohio | boy's antibiotics | | | day | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector antibiotic=Eventuality | | 2 | **feel** | past | boy | | | | | well *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **come back** | past | the ear infection | | | | | bad *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **need** | past | infection | a second longer course | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot course=Theme | 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:082-getting-better-and-medicines.lesson:15`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Getting better, caring for others and…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/82-getting-better-and-medicines/14/) - next →: [Getting better, caring for others and…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/82-getting-better-and-medicines/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/82-getting-better-and-medicines/)