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title: Taking vitamin C every day does not stop most people catching colds;… — Colds and flu · tree and pragmatics
description: Taking vitamin C every day does not stop most people catching colds; it might shorten a cold slightly in some studies. Who acts: Taking, most people, cold. 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 cl
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# Colds and flu, sentence 16

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Taking vitamin C every day does not stop most people catching colds; it might shorten a cold slightly in some studies.

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**Who acts:** Taking, most people, cold · **What happens:** take, not stop, catch, shorten · **To what, where:** vitamin, most people, colds, cold, studies

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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 (Taking, most people, cold), 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:16
# text = Taking vitamin C every day does not stop most people catching colds; it might shorten a cold slightly in some studies.
# 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	Taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	vitamin	vitamin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	C	C	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	catching	catch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	colds	cold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	shorten	shorten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	slightly	slightly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	studies	study	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- hedged: yes
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none, hedge=1

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund |  | vitamin |  |  | day |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vitamin=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **stop** | present · do-support | Taking | most people |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality people=Eventuality |
| 3 | **catch** | gerund | most people *not said here* | colds |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme |
| 4 | **shorten** | might | cold | a cold |  | some studies |  | slightly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cold=Patient |

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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:16`.

**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/).

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