The age of science, sentence 12

In the 1800s Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch proved that germs cause many diseases, and washing hands, clean water and pasteurised milk saved millions of lives.

Who acts: Louis, germs · What happens: prove, cause, wash, pasteurise, save · To what, where: 1800s, many diseases, hands, millions

This is a sentence of the lesson «The age of science» of the history 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 (Louis, germs), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 1800s	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 1800s	det
3	1800s	1800	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	9 proved	obl
4	Louis	Louis	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 proved	nsubj
5	Pasteur	Pasteur	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Louis	flat
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Robert	cc
7	Robert	Robert	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Louis	conj
8	Koch	Koch	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Robert	flat
9	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 cause	mark
11	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 cause	nsubj
12	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 proved	ccomp
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 diseases	amod
14	diseases	disease	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 cause	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 saved	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 hands	cc
17	washing	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 saved	nsubj
18	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 washing	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 water	punct
20	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 water	amod
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hands	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 milk	cc
23	pasteurised	pasteurise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 milk	amod
24	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hands	conj
25	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 proved	conj
26	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 saved	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 lives	case
28	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 millions	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 proved	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	prove	past	Louis and Robert		the 1800s	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	cause	present	germs	many diseases		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition disease=Patient
3	wash	gerund		hands and clean water and pasteurised milk		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
4	pasteurise	participle				tree rules
5	save	past		millions of lives		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent million=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:history:029-the-age-of-science.lesson:12.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

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