The microscopic world: viruses and vaccines, sentence 13

The chickenpox virus can hide in nerves for decades and come back as shingles, often when the immune system weakens with age; there are vaccines for both.

Who acts: chickenpox virus, immune system, vaccines · What happens: hide, come back, weaken, be · To what, where: nerves

This is a sentence of the lesson «The microscopic world: viruses and vaccines» of the biology 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 (chickenpox virus, immune system, vaccines), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 virus	det
2	chickenpox	chickenpox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 virus	compound
3	virus	virus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hide	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hide	aux
5	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 nerves	case
7	nerves	nerve	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hide	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 decades	case
9	decades	decade	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hide	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 come	cc
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hide	conj
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 come	advmod
13	as	as	ADP	_	14 shingles	case
14	shingles	shingle	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 come	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 weakens	punct
16	often	often	ADV	_	21 weakens	advmod
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 weakens	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 system	det
19	immune	immune	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 system	compound
20	system	system	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 weakens	nsubj
21	weakens	weaken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 come	advcl
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 age	case
23	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 weakens	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 are	punct
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 are	expl
26	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hide	parataxis
27	vaccines	vaccine	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 are	nsubj
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 both	case
29	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	27 vaccines	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hide	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	can	the chickenpox virus	nerves	decade		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in nerve=Location
2	come back	infinitive	the chickenpox virus not said here			as shingles	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	weaken	present	the immune system		with age	often property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with age=Instrument
4	does	present	vaccines for both	there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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, 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:biology:258-the-microscopic-world-viruses-and-vaccines.lesson:13.

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.

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