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title: Scarlet fever is caused by streptococcus bacteria, gives a rough san… — Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and frie… · tree and pragmatics
description: Scarlet fever is caused by streptococcus bacteria, gives a rough sandpaper rash, and is easily treated with antibiotics. Who acts: streptococcus bacteria. A sentence of the lesson «Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and friends» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc
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# Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and friends, sentence 17

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Scarlet fever is caused by streptococcus bacteria, gives a rough sandpaper rash, and is easily treated with antibiotics.

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**Who acts:** streptococcus bacteria · **What happens:** cause, give, treat · **To what, where:** Scarlet fever, rough sandpaper rash

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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 (streptococcus bacteria), 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:17
# text = Scarlet fever is caused by streptococcus bacteria, gives a rough sandpaper rash, and is easily treated with antibiotics.
# 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): no change
1	Scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|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	_	7	case	_	_
6	streptococcus	streptococcus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	sandpaper	sandpaper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	rash	rash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | present · passive | streptococcus bacteria | Scarlet fever |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient |
| 2 | **give** | present | streptococcus bacteria *not said here* | a rough sandpaper rash |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rash=Theme |
| 3 | **treat** | present · passive | streptococcus bacteria *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with antibiotics; easily *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: with antibiotic=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:medicine:011-spots-and-itches-chickenpox-head-lice-and-friends.lesson:17`.

**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/).

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