--- title: In 2020 and 2021 governments asked people to wear masks, keep apart… — COVID and staying home · tree and pragmatics description: In 2020 and 2021 governments asked people to wear masks, keep apart and stay home to slow the spread before there were vaccines. Who acts: governments, 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 (governments, 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:9 # text = In 2020 and 2021 governments asked people to wear masks, keep apart and stay home to slow the spread before there were vaccines. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 2020 2020 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 4 2021 2021 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 conj _ _ 5 governments government NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 iobj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 wear wear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 10 masks mask NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:xcomp 13 apart apart ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 16 home home ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 slow slow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:xcomp 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 spread spread NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 before before SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 23 expl _ _ 23 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:advcl|HaikuPos=AUX:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 vaccines vaccine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | governments | | people | 2020 | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **wear** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | governments *not said here* | masks | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mask=Theme | | 3 | **keep** | infinitive | governments *not said here* | | | | | apart *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **stay** | infinitive | governments *not said here* | | | | | home *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **slow** | to-infinitive | governments *not said here* | the spread | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent spread=Patient | | 6 | **be** | past | vaccines | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:9`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/12-covid-and-staying-home/8/) - next →: [COVID and staying home, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/12-covid-and-staying-home/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/12-covid-and-staying-home/)