--- title: A cold is an infection of the nose and throat by one of more than 20… — Colds and flu · tree and pragmatics description: A cold is an infection of the nose and throat by one of more than 200 different viruses, and it gets better on its own in about a week to ten days. Who acts: cold. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:5 # text = A cold is an infection of the nose and throat by one of more than 200 different viruses, and it gets better on its own in about a week to ten days. # 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): R1-cc-next ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 cold cold NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 infection infection NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc 10 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 11 by by ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nmod _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 14 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 16 advmod _ _ 15 than than ADP IN _ 14 fixed _ _ 16 200 200 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 17 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 viruses virus NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 23 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 xcomp _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 obl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 about about ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | a cold | a infection | | | | of the nose and throat; by one of 200 different viruses | tree rules | | 2 | **get** | present | cold | | | | day; week | good *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:5`. **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): R1-cc-next ×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, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/7-colds-and-flu/4/) - next →: [Colds and flu, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/7-colds-and-flu/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/7-colds-and-flu/)