--- title: "Feed a cold, starve a fever" is an old saying; doctors say with eit… — Colds, coughs and the weather · tree and pragmatics description: "Feed a cold, starve a fever" is an old saying; doctors say with either one you should drink plenty and eat when you feel hungry. Who acts: you, doctors. 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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 (you, doctors), 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:10 # text = "Feed a cold, starve a fever" is an old saying; doctors say with either one you should drink plenty and eat when you feel hungry. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Feed feed VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 cold cold NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 6 starve starve VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 fever fever NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nsubj 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 11 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 saying saying NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 ccomp _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 doctors doctor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 either either DET DT _ 19 det _ _ 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 22 obl _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 23 plenty plenty NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 26 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:advcl 29 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 xcomp _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, act=narrate, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feed** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | a cold | | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Recipient | | 2 | **starve** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | a fever | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **is a** | present | you *not said here* | a old saying | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | doctors | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **drink** | should | you | plenty | | | | with either one | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient | | 6 | **eat** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **feel** | present | you | | | | | hungry *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:myths:004-colds-coughs-and-the-weather.lesson:10`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-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: [Colds, coughs and the weather, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/4-colds-coughs-and-the-weather/9/) - next →: [Colds, coughs and the weather, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/4-colds-coughs-and-the-weather/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/4-colds-coughs-and-the-weather/)