--- title: Tonsils are lumps at the back of the throat that help fight germs; f… — Sore throats, ears and eyes · tree and pragmatics description: Tonsils are lumps at the back of the throat that help fight germs; fewer tonsil operations are done now than in the past, and a few bouts of tonsillitis (sore, swollen tonsils) are not a reason to take them out. Who acts: Tonsils, throat, sore. 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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 (Tonsils, throat, sore), 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:6 # text = Tonsils are lumps at the back of the throat that help fight germs; fewer tonsil operations are done now than in the past, and a few bouts of tonsillitis (sore, swollen tonsils) are not a reason to take them out. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Tonsils tonsil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 lumps lump NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 13 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 15 fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 amod _ _ 16 tonsil tonsil NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 operations operation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 20 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 21 than than ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 past past NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 bouts bout NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 tonsillitis tonsillitis NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 32 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 33 punct _ _ 33 sore sore NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 appos _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 swollen swell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 acl _ _ 36 tonsils tonsil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 37 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 36 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=33:punct 38 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 39 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 acl _ _ 44 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ _ 45 out out ADP RP _ 43 compound:prt _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **is a** | present | Tonsils | lumps and a few bouts of tonsillitis and a reason | | the back of the throat | | | tree rules | | 2 | **help** | present | the throat | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **fight** | infinitive | the throat *not said here* | germs | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Co-Agent | | 4 | **do** | present · passive | | fewer tonsil operations | | | now | than the past | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | | 5 | **swell** | participle | sore *not said here* | tonsils | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient tonsil=Extent | | 6 | **not** **is a** | present | Tonsils *not said here* | a reason | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **take out** | to-infinitive | Tonsils *not said here* | tonsils *= tonsil* | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | 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:6`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes/5/) - next →: [Sore throats, ears and eyes, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/9-sore-throats-ears-and-eyes/)