--- title: Most sore throats are caused by viruses and get better within about… — Sore throats, ears and eyes · tree and pragmatics description: Most sore throats are caused by viruses and get better within about a week; some are caused by streptococcus bacteria, and white spots on the tonsils can come from viruses as well as bacteria. Who acts: viruses, streptococcus bacteria, white spots. 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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 (viruses, streptococcus bacteria, white spots), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:009-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes.lesson:5 # text = Most sore throats are caused by viruses and get better within about a week; some are caused by streptococcus bacteria, and white spots on the tonsils can come from viruses as well as bacteria. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 009-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 2 sore sore ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 throats throat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 caused cause VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 viruses virus NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 10 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 xcomp _ _ 11 within within ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 about about ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 week week NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 18 nsubj _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 caused cause VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 19 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 streptococcus streptococcus NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 bacteria bacteria NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=18:punct 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 24 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 spots spot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 tonsils tonsil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 29 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 viruses virus NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 33 as as ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 36 cc _ _ 34 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 33 fixed _ _ 35 as as ADP IN _ 33 fixed _ _ 36 bacteria bacteria NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 37 . . 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 | **cause** | present · passive | viruses | Most sore throats | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient | | 2 | **get** | infinitive | viruses *not said here* | | | | week | good *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **cause** | present · passive | streptococcus bacteria | some | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient | | 4 | **come** | can | white spots on the tonsils | | | viruses as bacteria | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from virus=Initial\_Location | 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:009-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes.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): R2-punct-next ×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: [Sore throats, ears and eyes, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes/4/) - next →: [Sore throats, ears and eyes, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes/)