--- title: People wore masks, kept apart and stayed home to slow it down until… — COVID and staying home · tree and pragmatics description: People wore masks, kept apart and stayed home to slow it down until vaccines arrived, built on decades of earlier research and tested on tens of thousands of people. Who acts: People, vaccines. 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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 (People, vaccines), 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:2 # text = People wore masks, kept apart and stayed home to slow it down until vaccines arrived, built on decades of earlier research and tested on tens of thousands of people. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 People people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 wore wear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 masks mask NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 apart apart ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 stayed stay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 home home ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 slow slow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 down down ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 14 until until SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:mark 15 vaccines vaccine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nsubj 16 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 decades decade NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 earlier early ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBR:Degree=Cmp 23 research research NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 tested test VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 conj _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 tens ten NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wear** | past | People | masks | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mask=Theme | | 2 | **keep** | past | People *not said here* | | | | | apart *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **stay** | past | People *not said here* | | | | | home *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **slow down** | to-infinitive | People *not said here* | pandemic | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 5 | **arrive** | past | vaccines | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **build** | participle | People *not said here* | | | | decade | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 7 | **test** | participle | People *not said here* | | | tens of thousands of people | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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:2`. **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 ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [COVID and staying home, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/12-covid-and-staying-home/1/) - next →: [COVID and staying home, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/12-covid-and-staying-home/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/12-covid-and-staying-home/)