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title: Green or yellow snot is coloured by white blood cells fighting the i… — Colds and flu · tree and pragmatics
description: Green or yellow snot is coloured by white blood cells fighting the infection and happens in ordinary viral colds too. Who acts: white blood cells. 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 8

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Green or yellow snot is coloured by white blood cells fighting the infection and happens in ordinary viral colds too.

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**Who acts:** white blood cells · **What happens:** colour, fight, happen · **To what, where:** Green snot, infection, ordinary viral colds

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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 (white blood cells), 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:8
# text = Green or yellow snot is coloured by white blood cells fighting the infection and happens in ordinary viral colds too.
# 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): no change
1	Green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	snot	snot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	coloured	colour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	acl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	infection	infection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	happens	happen	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	viral	viral	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	colds	cold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	too	too	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **colour** | present · passive | white blood cells | Green snot |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fight** | gerund | white blood cells *not said here* | the infection |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent infection=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **happen** | present | white blood cells *not said here* |  |  | ordinary viral colds |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in cold=Location |

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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:8`.

**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): no change. **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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