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title: The «above the neck» idea: with only a runny nose or slightly sore t… — Ill on match day: play or stay home? · tree and pragmatics
description: The «above the neck» idea: with only a runny nose or slightly sore throat and no fever, light play may be OK if you feel well; stop if you feel worse. Who acts: light play, you. A sentence of the lesson «Ill on match day: play or stay home?» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# Ill on match day: play or stay home?, sentence 5

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The «above the neck» idea: with only a runny nose or slightly sore throat and no fever, light play may be OK if you feel well; stop if you feel worse.

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**Who acts:** light play, you · **What happens:** be, feel, stop

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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 (light play, 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:5
# text = The «above the neck» idea: with only a runny nose or slightly sore throat and no fever, light play may be OK if you feel well; stop if you feel worse.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
2	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
3	above	above	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
6	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=7:punct
7	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	runny	runny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
22	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
26	OK	ok	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
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	26	advcl	_	_
30	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
32	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:conj
33	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
36	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	xcomp	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | may | light play with a runny nose or sore throat and no fever |  |  |  |  | ok *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **stop** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **feel** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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**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:060-ill-on-match-day-play-or-stay-home.lesson:5`.

**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, 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/).

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