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title: Cold sores are caused by a herpes simplex virus that stays in the bo… — Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and frie… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cold sores are caused by a herpes simplex virus that stays in the body and can come back when you're ill or in the sun. Who acts: simplex virus, you. A sentence of the lesson «Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and friends» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre
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# Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and friends, sentence 13

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Cold sores are caused by a herpes simplex virus that stays in the body and can come back when you're ill or in the sun.

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**Who acts:** simplex virus, you · **What happens:** cause, stay, come back, be · **To what, where:** Cold sores, body

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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 (simplex virus, you), 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:13
# text = Cold sores are caused by a herpes simplex virus that stays in the body and can come back when you're ill or in the sun.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	sores	sore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	herpes	herpes	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:compound
8	simplex	simplex	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:amod
9	virus	virus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:agent	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sun.	sun	NOUN	NN	_	22	conj	_	_
```

## 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 | **cause** | present · passive | a simplex virus | Cold sores |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient |
| 2 | **stay** | present | a simplex virus |  |  | the body |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in body=Location |
| 3 | **come back** | can | a simplex virus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | tree rules |

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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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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