--- title: A chest infection caused by bacteria can improve within a couple of… — Antibiotics, viruses and side effects · tree and pragmatics description: A chest infection caused by bacteria can improve within a couple of days on antibiotics, but doctors ask patients to take the course exactly as prescribed and to check with them before stopping. Who acts: chest infection, doctors, patients. 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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 (chest infection, doctors, patients), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:019-antibiotics-viruses-and-side-effects.lesson:7 # text = A chest infection caused by bacteria can improve within a couple of days on antibiotics, but doctors ask patients to take the course exactly as prescribed and to check with them before stopping. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 019-antibiotics-viruses-and-side-effects.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 chest chest NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 infection infection NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 caused cause VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 acl _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 bacteria bacterium NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:agent _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:obl:agent|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 improve improve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 within within ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 couple couple NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 antibiotics antibiotic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nmod 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 doctors doctor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 ask ask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advcl 20 patients patient NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 as as SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 27 prescribed prescribe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 advcl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ _ 33 before before SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 34 stopping stop VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 advcl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cause** | participle | | a chest infection *not said here* | | | | | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | | 2 | **improve** | can | a chest infection | | | antibiotics | | within a couple of days | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | doctors | patients | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent patient=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | patients *not said here* | the course | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Theme | | 5 | **prescribe** | participle | patients *not said here* | | | | | exactly *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **check** | to-infinitive | patients *not said here* | | | | | with Antibiotics *= antibiotic* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **stop** | gerund | patients *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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:019-antibiotics-viruses-and-side-effects.lesson:7`. **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 ×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. 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