--- title: A lateral flow test looks for virus proteins in a nose or throat sam… — COVID and staying home · tree and pragmatics description: A lateral flow test looks for virus proteins in a nose or throat sample; a positive result is usually right, but a negative one can miss an early infection; the swab only goes a little way in and cannot touch the brain. Who acts: flow test, positive result, negative one, swab. A sentence of the less --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/12-covid-and-staying-home/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / [COVID and staying home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/12-covid-and-staying-home/) / 11 # COVID and staying home, sentence 11 A lateral flow test looks for virus proteins in a nose or throat sample; a positive result is usually right, but a negative one can miss an early infection; the swab only goes a little way in and cannot touch the brain. **Who acts:** flow test, positive result, negative one, swab · **What happens:** look, be, miss, go, not touch · **To what, where:** nose sample, early infection, little way, brain 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 (flow test, positive result, negative one, swab), 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:11 # text = A lateral flow test looks for virus proteins in a nose or throat sample; a positive result is usually right, but a negative one can miss an early infection; the swab only goes a little way in and cannot touch the brain. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 lateral lateral NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 flow flow NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 test test NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 virus virus NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 proteins protein NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 11 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 14 sample sample NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 positive positive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 result result NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 20 usually usually ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 negative negative ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 miss miss VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 parataxis _ _ 29 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 early early ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 infection infection NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 swab swab NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 35 only only ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 40 in in ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 43 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 44 advmod _ _ 44 touch touch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 conj _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 brain brain NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | present | a flow test | | | a nose sample | | for virus proteins | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for protein=Theme in sample=Location | | 2 | **is** | present | a positive result | | | | | right, usually *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **miss** | can | a negative one | a early infection | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer infection=Stimulus | | 4 | **go** | present | the swab | a little way | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme | | 5 | **not** **touch** | can | the swab *not said here* | the brain | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme brain=Co-Theme | 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:11`. **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 ×2. **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, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/12-covid-and-staying-home/10/) - next →: [COVID and staying home, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/12-covid-and-staying-home/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/12-covid-and-staying-home/)