--- title: Honey can soothe a sore throat and calm a cough a little, but it is… — Colds and flu · tree and pragmatics description: Honey can soothe a sore throat and calm a cough a little, but it is never given to babies under 12 months. Who acts: Honey. A sentence of the lesson «Colds and flu» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [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/13/) [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/) / 13 # Colds and flu, sentence 13 Honey can soothe a sore throat and calm a cough a little, but it is never given to babies under 12 months. **Who acts:** Honey · **What happens:** soothe, calm, not give · **To what, where:** sore throat, cough, Honey, babies 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 (Honey), 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:13 # text = Honey can soothe a sore throat and calm a cough a little, but it is never given to babies under 12 months. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Honey honey NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 soothe soothe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 sore sore ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 calm calm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 cough cough NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 21 under under ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 12 12 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **soothe** | can | Honey | a sore throat | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus throat=Experiencer | | 2 | **calm** | infinitive | Honey *not said here* | a cough | | | | a little *obl* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus cough=Experiencer | | 3 | **not** **give** | present · passive | | Honey | babies under 12 months | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to baby=Recipient | 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:13`. **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): 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/). - ← previous: [Colds and flu, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/7-colds-and-flu/12/) - next →: [Colds and flu, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/7-colds-and-flu/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/7-colds-and-flu/)