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title: Colds and other viral infections are the most common trigger of asth… — Asthma and inhalers · tree and pragmatics
description: Colds and other viral infections are the most common trigger of asthma attacks in children. Who acts: Colds. A sentence of the lesson «Asthma and inhalers» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Asthma and inhalers, sentence 16

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Colds and other viral infections are the most common trigger of asthma attacks in children.

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**Who acts:** Colds · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** common trigger

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Asthma and inhalers» 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 (Colds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:014-asthma-and-inhalers.lesson:16
# text = Colds and other viral infections are the most common trigger of asthma attacks in children.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 014-asthma-and-inhalers.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	Colds	cold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	viral	viral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	infections	infection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	9	advmod	_	_
9	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	trigger	trigger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	asthma	asthma	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	attacks	attack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Colds and other viral infections | the common trigger |  |  |  | of asthma attacks in children | tree rules |

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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:014-asthma-and-inhalers.lesson:16`.

**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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