--- title: A verruca is a wart on the foot caused by a virus; the NHS says you… — Changing-room germs · tree and pragmatics description: A verruca is a wart on the foot caused by a virus; the NHS says you can still swim if you cover it with a waterproof plaster or a verruca sock. Who acts: verruca, NHS, you. 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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 (verruca, NHS, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:059-changing-room-germs.lesson:4 # text = A verruca is a wart on the foot caused by a virus; the NHS says you can still swim if you cover it with a waterproof plaster or a verruca sock. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 059-changing-room-germs.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 verruca verruca NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 wart wart NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 parataxis _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 caused cause VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 virus virus NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:agent _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 NHS NHS PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 still still ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 swim swim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 21 if if SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 cover cover VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 waterproof waterproof ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 plaster plaster NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 verruca verruca NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 sock sock NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a verruca | a wart | | the foot | | | tree rules | | 2 | **cause** | participle | | the foot *not said here* | | | | | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the NHS | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **swim** | can | you | | | | still | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **cover** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | NHS | | | | with a waterproof plaster or a verruca sock | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with plaster=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:059-changing-room-germs.lesson:4`. **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): R6-punct-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: [Changing-room germs, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/59-changing-room-germs/3/) - next →: [Changing-room germs, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/59-changing-room-germs/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/59-changing-room-germs/)