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title: So Nan's coat is still a good idea, because being freezing is misera… — Colds, coughs and the weather · tree and pragmatics
description: So Nan's coat is still a good idea, because being freezing is miserable and in very cold weather getting soaked can be dangerous. Who acts: coat, freezing. 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 pragmatic
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# Colds, coughs and the weather, sentence 4

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So Nan's coat is still a good idea, because being freezing is miserable and in very cold weather getting soaked can be dangerous.

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**Who acts:** coat, freezing · **What happens:** be, soak · **To what, where:** good idea

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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 (coat, freezing), 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:4
# text = So Nan's coat is still a good idea, because being freezing is miserable and in very cold weather getting soaked can be dangerous.
# 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): no change
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
2	Nan	Nan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	cop	_	_
13	freezing	freezing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	miserable	miserable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
21	getting	get	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	soaked	soak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	csubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
25	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **is a** | present | Nan's coat | a good idea |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | freezing *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | freezing |  |  |  |  | miserable *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **soak** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  | in cold weather | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: in weather=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | can | freezing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | dangerous *property* | 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:4`.

**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): no change. **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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