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title: "Coat ON, or you'll catch your death!" shouts Nan from the door, and… — Colds, coughs and the weather · tree and pragmatics
description: "Coat ON, or you'll catch your death!" shouts Nan from the door, and half the country has heard it every winter for a hundred years: cold air, wet hair and rain give you a cold. Who acts: you, Nan, country, cold air. A sentence of the lesson «Colds, coughs and the weather» of the myths course of Mov
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# Colds, coughs and the weather, sentence 0

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"Coat ON, or you'll catch your death!" shouts Nan from the door, and half the country has heard it every winter for a hundred years: cold air, wet hair and rain give you a cold.

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**Who acts:** you, Nan, country, cold air, your · **What happens:** catch, shout, hear, give, die · **To what, where:** death, door, cold, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Colds, coughs and the weather» of the myths 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 (you, Nan, country, cold air), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:004-colds-coughs-and-the-weather.lesson:0
# text = "Coat ON, or you'll catch your death!" shouts Nan from the door, and half the country has heard it every winter for a hundred years: cold air, wet hair and rain give you a cold.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 004-colds-coughs-and-the-weather.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
2	Coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:desc	_	_
3	ON	ON	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
13	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	Nan	Nan	PROPN	FW	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	22	det:predet	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nmod
32	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
33	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
40	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
41	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	40	iobj	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=40:obj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	40	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 | **catch** *in a quote* | future | you | your death |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Theme |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | Nan |  |  | the door |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **hear** | present · perfect | half country | death |  |  | winter; year |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 4 | **give** | present | cold air and wet hair and rain | a cold | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient cold=Theme |
| 5 | **die** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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/).

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