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title: Cystic fibrosis is an inherited condition (passed down from parents)… — A classmate with diabetes, and other long-term c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cystic fibrosis is an inherited condition (passed down from parents) with thick sticky mucus (slime) in the lungs and gut, treated with medicines and daily chest physio; it is not catching, but two people with it keep apart so they do not pass lung germs to each other. Who acts: Cystic fibrosis, fib
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# A classmate with diabetes, and other long-term conditions, sentence 15

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Cystic fibrosis is an inherited condition (passed down from parents) with thick sticky mucus (slime) in the lungs and gut, treated with medicines and daily chest physio; it is not catching, but two people with it keep apart so they do not pass lung germs to each other.

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**Who acts:** Cystic fibrosis, fibrosis, two people, people · **What happens:** inherit, be, pass down, treat, not catch, keep · **To what, where:** inherited condition, thick sticky mucus, lung germs, each

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A classmate with diabetes, and other long-term conditions» 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 (Cystic fibrosis, fibrosis, two people, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:016-a-classmate-with-diabetes-and-other-long-term-conditions.lesson:15
# text = Cystic fibrosis is an inherited condition (passed down from parents) with thick sticky mucus (slime) in the lungs and gut, treated with medicines and daily chest physio; it is not catching, but two people with it keep apart so they do not pass lung germs to each other.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 016-a-classmate-with-diabetes-and-other-long-term-conditions.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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Cystic	cystic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	fibrosis	fibrosis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	inherited	inherit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	8	punct	_	_
8	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
9	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	sticky	sticky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	mucus	mucus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obl
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
18	slime	slime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	lungs	lung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	gut	gut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:conj
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	medicines	medicine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	daily	daily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	physio	physio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	catching	catch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=41:punct
39	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
40	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	nummod	_	_
41	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
42	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nmod	_	_
44	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
45	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
46	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
47	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
48	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
50	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	advcl	_	_
51	lung	lung	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obj	_	_
53	to	to	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	52	nmod	_	_
55	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	fixed	_	_
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **inherit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Cystic fibrosis | a inherited condition |  |  |  | with thick sticky mucus in the lungs and gut | tree rules |
| 3 | **pass down** | participle |  | a inherited condition *not said here* |  |  |  | from parents | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from parent=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **treat** | participle |  | thick sticky mucus in the lungs and gut *not said here* |  |  |  | with medicines and daily chest physio | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent with medicine=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **catch** | present · progressive | fibrosis |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **keep** | present | two people with fibrosis |  |  |  |  | apart *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **not** **pass** | present · do-support | people | lung germs | each |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent germ=Theme to each=Recipient |

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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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**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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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/).

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