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title: An ill person should see a doctor if they stay ill a long time or ge… — Colds, coughs and the weather · tree and pragmatics
description: An ill person should see a doctor if they stay ill a long time or get worse, whatever colour their snot is. Who acts: ill person, doctors, snot. 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 of every 
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# Colds, coughs and the weather, sentence 18

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An ill person should see a doctor if they stay ill a long time or get worse, whatever colour their snot is.

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**Who acts:** ill person, doctors, snot · **What happens:** see, stay, get, be · **To what, where:** doctor, colour

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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 (ill person, doctors, snot), 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:18
# text = An ill person should see a doctor if they stay ill a long time or get worse, whatever colour their snot is.
# 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	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	stay	stay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
17	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	xcomp	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	whatever	whatever	DET	WDT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	snot	snot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
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 | **see** | should | a ill person | a doctor |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer doctor=Stimulus |
| 2 | **stay** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | doctors *= doctor* |  |  |  | time | ill *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **get** | infinitive | doctors *= doctor* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is a** | present | doctors's snot | whatever colour |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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:18`.

**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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