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title: A cough can last weeks after a cold, but a cough lasting more than t… — Colds and flu · tree and pragmatics
description: A cough can last weeks after a cold, but a cough lasting more than three weeks should be checked by a GP, a family doctor. Who acts: cough, GP. 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.
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# Colds and flu, sentence 14

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A cough can last weeks after a cold, but a cough lasting more than three weeks should be checked by a GP, a family doctor.

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**Who acts:** cough, GP · **What happens:** last, check · **To what, where:** cough

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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 (cough, GP), 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:14
# text = A cough can last weeks after a cold, but a cough lasting more than three weeks should be checked by a GP, a family doctor.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cough	cough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:aux
4	last	last	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:obj
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=4:punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cough	cough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	lasting	last	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	16	advmod	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
16	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	checked	check	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	GP	gp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | can | a cough |  |  |  | after a cold; week |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **last** | gerund | a cough *not said here* |  |  |  | week |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **check** | should · passive | a GP | a cough |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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**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:14`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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/).

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