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title: Chicken soup does not cure a cold, but warm drinks and soup can soot… — Colds, coughs and the weather · tree and pragmatics
description: Chicken soup does not cure a cold, but warm drinks and soup can soothe a sore throat and help you drink enough. Who acts: Chicken soup, warm drinks, you. A sentence of the lesson «Colds, coughs and the weather» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Colds, coughs and the weather, sentence 16

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Chicken soup does not cure a cold, but warm drinks and soup can soothe a sore throat and help you drink enough.

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**Who acts:** Chicken soup, warm drinks, you · **What happens:** not cure, soothe, help, drink · **To what, where:** cold, sore throat, you

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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 (Chicken soup, warm drinks, you), 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:16
# text = Chicken soup does not cure a cold, but warm drinks and soup can soothe a sore throat and help you drink enough.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Chicken	chicken	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	cure	cure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	soothe	soothe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **not** **cure** | present · do-support | Chicken soup | a cold |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer cold=Source |
| 2 | **soothe** | can | warm drinks and soup | a sore throat |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus throat=Experiencer |
| 3 | **help** | infinitive | warm drinks and soup *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 4 | **drink** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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**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:16`.

**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): 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/).

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