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title: Shouting for a long time strains the vocal cords so they swell and t… — The World Cup · tree and pragmatics
description: Shouting for a long time strains the vocal cords so they swell and the voice goes hoarse; resting it and sipping water usually bring it back in a few days. Who acts: Shouting, cords, voice. A sentence of the lesson «The World Cup» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# The World Cup, sentence 13

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Shouting for a long time strains the vocal cords so they swell and the voice goes hoarse; resting it and sipping water usually bring it back in a few days.

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**Who acts:** Shouting, cords, voice · **What happens:** shout, strain, swell, go, rest, sip · **To what, where:** vocal cords, voice, water

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The World Cup» 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 (Shouting, cords, voice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:061-the-world-cup.lesson:13
# text = Shouting for a long time strains the vocal cords so they swell and the voice goes hoarse; resting it and sipping water usually bring it back in a few days.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 061-the-world-cup.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	Shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	csubj	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	strains	strain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	vocal	vocal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cords	cord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	swell	swell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	hoarse	hoarse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	sipping	sip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
23	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **strain** | present | Shouting | the vocal cords |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent cord=Source |
| 3 | **swell** | present | cords *= cord* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **go** | present | the voice |  |  |  |  | hoarse *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **rest** | gerund | Shouting *not said here* | voice |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 6 | **sip** | gerund | Shouting *not said here* | water |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **bring back** | infinitive | Shouting *not said here* | voice |  |  | day | usually *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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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