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title: In 2020 it spread across the whole world because nobody's body knew… — COVID and staying home · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2020 it spread across the whole world because nobody's body knew it yet: that is what a pandemic means. Who acts: it, body, that, pandemic. A sentence of the lesson «COVID and staying home» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# COVID and staying home, sentence 1

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In 2020 it spread across the whole world because nobody's body knew it yet: that is what a pandemic means.

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**Who acts:** it, body, that, pandemic · **What happens:** spread, know, be, mean · **To what, where:** 2020, world

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This is a sentence of the lesson «COVID and staying home» 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 (it, body, that, pandemic), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:012-covid-and-staying-home.lesson:1
# text = In 2020 it spread across the whole world because nobody's body knew it yet: that is what a pandemic means.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 012-covid-and-staying-home.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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	across	across	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	parataxis	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	pandemic	pandemic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	.	.	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 | **spread** | past | it |  |  | 2020 |  | across the whole world | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 2020=Location |
| 2 | **know** | past | nobody's body | world |  |  | yet |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is a** | present | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **mean** | present | a pandemic |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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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:012-covid-and-staying-home.lesson:1`.

**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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