Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day, sentence 17

In 1847 Ignaz Semmelweis showed handwashing saved mothers' lives but was mocked; in the 1860s to 1880s Pasteur and Koch proved that germs cause disease.

Who acts: Ignaz, handwashing, Pasteur, germs · What happens: show, save, mock, prove, cause · To what, where: 1847, lives, 1860s, disease · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 years changed a normal day» 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 (Ignaz, handwashing, Pasteur, 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	_	2 1847	case
2	1847	1847	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 showed	obl
3	Ignaz	Ignaz	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 showed	nsubj
4	Semmelweis	Semmelweis	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Ignaz	flat
5	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	handwashing	handwash	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 saved	nsubj
7	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 showed	ccomp
8	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lives	nmod:poss
9	'	's	PART	_	8 mothers	case
10	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 saved	obj
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 mocked	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 mocked	aux:pass
13	mocked	mock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 showed	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 1860s	punct
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 1860s	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 1860s	det
17	1860s	1860	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 proved	obl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 1880s	case
19	1880s	1880	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 1860s	nmod
20	Pasteur	Pasteur	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 proved	nsubj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Koch	cc
22	Koch	Koch	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Pasteur	conj
23	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 showed	parataxis
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 cause	mark
25	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 cause	nsubj
26	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 proved	ccomp
27	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cause	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 showed	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	show	past	Ignaz		1847	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	save	past	handwashing	mothers's lives		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
3	mock	past · passive	Ignaz not said here			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»
4	prove	past	Pasteur and Koch		the 1860s to 1880s	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	cause	present	germs	disease		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition disease=Patient

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:065-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day.lesson:17.

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.

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