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title: Many coaches use the «above the neck» check: a runny nose or a sligh… — Ill on match day: play or stay home? · tree and pragmatics
description: Many coaches use the «above the neck» check: a runny nose or a slightly sore throat with no fever may allow gentle play if you feel well, but a chesty cough, aching body, tummy bug or fever are «below the neck» signs and mean no sport today. Who acts: Many coaches, runny nose, you. A sentence of the
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# Ill on match day: play or stay home?, sentence 0

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Many coaches use the «above the neck» check: a runny nose or a slightly sore throat with no fever may allow gentle play if you feel well, but a chesty cough, aching body, tummy bug or fever are «below the neck» signs and mean no sport today.

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**Who acts:** Many coaches, runny nose, you · **What happens:** use, allow, feel, ache, be, mean · **To what, where:** check, neck, gentle play, sport

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ill on match day: play or stay home?» 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 (Many coaches, runny nose, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:060-ill-on-match-day-play-or-stay-home.lesson:0
# text = Many coaches use the «above the neck» check: a runny nose or a slightly sore throat with no fever may allow gentle play if you feel well, but a chesty cough, aching body, tummy bug or fever are «below the neck» signs and mean no sport today.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 060-ill-on-match-day-play-or-stay-home.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	coaches	coach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	use	use	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
6	above	above	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	check	check	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	runny	runny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
18	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
19	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
25	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
30	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	chesty	chesty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	cough	cough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	aching	ache	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	amod	_	_
38	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	tummy	tummy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	bug	bug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:appos
42	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
44	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
45	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	44	punct	_	_
46	below	below	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
49	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	48	punct	_	_
50	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	conj	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
53	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	54	det	_	_
54	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	_
55	today	today	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl:unmarked	_	_
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **use** | present | Many coaches | check |  | the neck |  | a chesty cough and aching body and tummy bug or fever *obl* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent check=Patient |
| 2 | **allow** | may | a runny nose or a sore throat with no fever | gentle play |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent play=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **feel** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **ache** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  | the neck and signs |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **mean** | present | Many coaches *not said here* | no sport |  |  | today |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sport=Topic |

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