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title: Wet hair and cold weather do not create cold viruses; colds are comm… — Colds and flu · tree and pragmatics
description: Wet hair and cold weather do not create cold viruses; colds are commoner in winter mostly because people are indoors close together. Who acts: Wet hair, colds, people. A sentence of the lesson «Colds and flu» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Colds and flu, sentence 7

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Wet hair and cold weather do not create cold viruses; colds are commoner in winter mostly because people are indoors close together.

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**Who acts:** Wet hair, colds, people · **What happens:** not create, be · **To what, where:** cold viruses

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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 (Wet hair, colds, people), 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:7
# text = Wet hair and cold weather do not create cold viruses; colds are commoner in winter mostly because people are indoors close together.
# 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	Wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	create	create	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	viruses	virus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	colds	cold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	commoner	common	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	parataxis	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:nmod
17	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
18	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	indoors	indoors	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	_
23	together	together	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **create** | present · do-support | Wet hair and cold weather | cold viruses |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent virus=Result |
| 2 | **is** | present | colds |  |  |  | winter | common *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | people |  |  |  |  | close, indoors, mostly, together *property* | tree rules |

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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:7`.

**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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