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title: Chickenpox is a virus: red spots turn into blisters and then crust o… — Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and frie… · tree and pragmatics
description: Chickenpox is a virus: red spots turn into blisters and then crust over in about a week, and it spreads very easily, so you stay home till all the spots have crusted. Who acts: Chickenpox, red spots, you, spots. A sentence of the lesson «Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and friends» of the me
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# Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and friends, sentence 1

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Chickenpox is a virus: red spots turn into blisters and then crust over in about a week, and it spreads very easily, so you stay home till all the spots have crusted.

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**Who acts:** Chickenpox, red spots, you, spots · **What happens:** be, turn, crust over, spread, stay, crust · **To what, where:** virus, blisters

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and friends» of the medicine 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 (Chickenpox, red spots, you, spots), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:011-spots-and-itches-chickenpox-head-lice-and-friends.lesson:1
# text = Chickenpox is a virus: red spots turn into blisters and then crust over in about a week, and it spreads very easily, so you stay home till all the spots have crusted.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 011-spots-and-itches-chickenpox-head-lice-and-friends.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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Chickenpox	chickenpox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	virus	virus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	blisters	blister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	crust	crust	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
14	over	over	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	about	about	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	spreads	spread	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:conj
29	home	home	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
30	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
31	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	33	det:predet	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
34	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	crusted	crust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
36	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | Chickenpox | a virus |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** | present | red spots |  |  | blisters |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into blister=Trajectory |
| 3 | **crust over** | present | red spots *not said here* |  |  |  | then; week | over *property* | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **spread** | present | Chickenpox |  |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **stay** | present | you |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **crust** | present · perfect | all spots |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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**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): R7-rel-agree ×3, 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.

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