--- title: A sneeze can spray droplets several metres, so the advice is to catc… — Germs, the immune system and hand-washing · tree and pragmatics description: A sneeze can spray droplets several metres, so the advice is to catch it in a tissue, bin it, then wash your hands, or sneeze into your elbow. Who acts: sneeze, advice. 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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 (sneeze, advice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:030-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing.lesson:11 # text = A sneeze can spray droplets several metres, so the advice is to catch it in a tissue, bin it, then wash your hands, or sneeze into your elbow. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 030-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing.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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sneeze sneeze NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 spray spray VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 droplets droplet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 advice advice NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 tissue tissue NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 bin bin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ _ 24 wash wash VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 25 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 sneeze sneeze VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 30 into into ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 elbow elbow NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: suggest - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=suggest | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spray** | can | a sneeze | droplets | | | | several metres *obl:unmarked* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent droplet=Theme | | 2 | **is** | present | the advice | | | a tissue | | catch *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **bin** | infinitive | the advice *not said here* | sneeze | | | | | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **wash** | infinitive | the advice *not said here* | your hands | | | then | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | | 5 | **sneeze** | infinitive | the advice *not said here* | | | your elbow | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: 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:030-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing.lesson:11`. **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. **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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