--- title: Cold sores are caused by a virus spread by close skin contact, so do… — Changing-room germs · tree and pragmatics description: Cold sores are caused by a virus spread by close skin contact, so doctors advise against contact sport while a sore is open. Who acts: virus, doctors, sore. A sentence of the lesson «Changing-room germs» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/59-changing-room-germs/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / [Changing-room germs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/59-changing-room-germs/) / 9 # Changing-room germs, sentence 9 Cold sores are caused by a virus spread by close skin contact, so doctors advise against contact sport while a sore is open. **Who acts:** virus, doctors, sore · **What happens:** cause, spread, advise, be · **To what, where:** Cold sores, virus This is a sentence of the lesson «Changing-room germs» 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 (virus, doctors, sore), 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:9 # text = Cold sores are caused by a virus spread by close skin contact, so doctors advise against contact sport while a sore is open. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 sores sore NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 caused cause VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 virus virus NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 spread spread VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 contact contact NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 doctors doctor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 advise advise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 17 against against ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 contact contact NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 sport sport NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 while while SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 sore sore NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 24 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 advcl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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** | present · passive | a virus | Cold sores | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient | | 2 | **spread** | participle | | a virus *not said here* | | | | by close skin contact | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by contact=Location | | 3 | **advise** *speech: other* | present | doctors | | | | | against contact sport | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent against sport=Topic | | 4 | **is** | present | a sore | | | | | open *property* | tree rules | 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:9`. **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): R7-rel-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, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/59-changing-room-germs/7/) - next →: [Changing-room germs, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/59-changing-room-germs/10/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/59-changing-room-germs/)