--- title: The UK children's flu vaccine is a nasal spray with weakened viruses… — Colds and flu · tree and pragmatics description: The UK children's flu vaccine is a nasal spray with weakened viruses that cannot cause flu; it changes every year because flu viruses change. Who acts: flu vaccine, weakened viruses, Flu, flu viruses. A sentence of the lesson «Colds and flu» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/7-colds-and-flu/10/) [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/) / [Colds and flu](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/7-colds-and-flu/) / 10 # Colds and flu, sentence 10 The UK children's flu vaccine is a nasal spray with weakened viruses that cannot cause flu; it changes every year because flu viruses change. **Who acts:** flu vaccine, weakened viruses, Flu, flu viruses · **What happens:** be, weaken, not cause, change · **To what, where:** nasal spray, flu This is a sentence of the lesson «Colds and flu» 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 (flu vaccine, weakened viruses, Flu, flu viruses), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:007-colds-and-flu.lesson:10 # text = The UK children's flu vaccine is a nasal spray with weakened viruses that cannot cause flu; it changes every year because flu viruses change. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 007-colds-and-flu.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det 2 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod:poss _ _ 4 's 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 flu flu NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 vaccine vaccine NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 nasal nasal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 spray spray NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 weakened weaken VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 amod _ _ 13 viruses virus NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 cause cause VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 acl:relcl _ _ 18 flu flu NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 22 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 23 det _ _ 23 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:nmod:unmarked 24 because because SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 flu flu NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 viruses virus NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 change change VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the UK children's flu vaccine | a nasal spray | | | | with weakened viruses | tree rules | | 2 | **weaken** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **not** **cause** | can | weakened viruses | flu | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition flu=Patient | | 4 | **change** | present | Flu | | | | year | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **change** | present | flu viruses | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:007-colds-and-flu.lesson:10`. **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 ×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/). - ← previous: [Colds and flu, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/7-colds-and-flu/9/) - next →: [Colds and flu, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/7-colds-and-flu/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/7-colds-and-flu/)