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title: Chickenpox spreads through the air as well as by touch, so covering… — Ill on match day: play or stay home? · tree and pragmatics
description: Chickenpox spreads through the air as well as by touch, so covering the spots does not stop it. Who acts: Chickenpox, covering. A sentence of the lesson «Ill on match day: play or stay home?» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Ill on match day: play or stay home?, sentence 12

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Chickenpox spreads through the air as well as by touch, so covering the spots does not stop it.

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**Who acts:** Chickenpox, covering · **What happens:** spread, cover, not stop · **To what, where:** air, spots, chickenpox

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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 (Chickenpox, covering), 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:12
# text = Chickenpox spreads through the air as well as by touch, so covering the spots does not stop it.
# 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): no change
1	Chickenpox	chickenpox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spreads	spread	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	10	cc	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	fixed	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
13	covering	cover	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	csubj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **spread** | present | Chickenpox |  |  | the air as touch |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location |
| 2 | **cover** | gerund |  | the spots |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme spot=Destination |
| 3 | **not** **stop** | present · do-support | covering | chickenpox |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality |

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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): no change. **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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