--- title: There is no cure for a cold; rest, drinks and time, about a week to… — Colds and flu · tree and pragmatics description: There is no cure for a cold; rest, drinks and time, about a week to ten days, are what get you better. Who acts: cure, rest. 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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Colds and flu, sentence 4 There is no cure for a cold; rest, drinks and time, about a week to ten days, are what get you better. **Who acts:** cure, rest · **What happens:** be, get · **To what, where:** you 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 (cure, rest), 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:4 # text = There is no cure for a cold; rest, drinks and time, about a week to ten days, are what get you better. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 4 det _ _ 4 cure cure NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 cold cold NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 9 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 drinks drink NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 about about ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obl 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 23 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 22 nsubj _ _ 24 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 24 xcomp _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **be** | present | no cure for a cold | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **does** | present | rest and drinks and time | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **get** | present | | you | | | | good *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | 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:4`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/7-colds-and-flu/3/) - next →: [Colds and flu, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/7-colds-and-flu/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/7-colds-and-flu/)