--- title: COVID can damage the smell-sensing cells in the nose; smell usually… — COVID and staying home · tree and pragmatics description: COVID can damage the smell-sensing cells in the nose; smell usually returns within weeks, but for some it takes months; losing smell does not mean you are seriously ill. Who acts: COVID, smell, it, losing. 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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 (COVID, smell, it, losing), 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:10 # text = COVID can damage the smell-sensing cells in the nose; smell usually returns within weeks, but for some it takes months; losing smell does not mean you are seriously ill. # 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 COVID COVID PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 damage damage VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 sensing sense VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 amod _ _ 8 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 14 usually usually ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 returns return VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 16 within within ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 23 obl _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ _ 24 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 losing lose VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 csubj _ _ 27 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 33 seriously seriously ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 ccomp _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed polarity=none | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **damage** | can | COVID | the sensing cells | | the nose | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Patient | | 2 | **sense** | gerund | | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **return** | present | smell | | | | week | usually *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **take** | present | it | | | | month | for some | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for some=Beneficiary | | 5 | **lose** | gerund | | smell | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Eventuality | | 6 | **not** **mean** | present · do-support | losing | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | present | you | | | | | ill, seriously *property* | tree rules | 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:medicine:012-covid-and-staying-home.lesson:10`. **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: [COVID and staying home, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/12-covid-and-staying-home/9/) - next →: [COVID and staying home, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/12-covid-and-staying-home/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/12-covid-and-staying-home/)