Vaccinations and why, sentence 11
The claim that MMR causes autism came from a 1998 study that was found to be dishonest and was withdrawn in 2010; large studies of millions of children found no link.
Who acts: MMR, claim, 1998 study, large studies · What happens: cause, come, find, be, withdraw, study · To what, where: autism, 1998 study, 2010, link, millions
This is a sentence of the lesson «Vaccinations and why» of the medicine 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 (MMR, claim, 1998 study, large studies), 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 | 2 claim | det |
| 2 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 causes | mark |
| 4 | MMR | MMR | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 causes | nsubj |
| 5 | causes | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 claim | acl |
| 6 | autism | autism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 causes | obj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 study | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 study | det |
| 10 | 1998 | 1998 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 study | nummod |
| 11 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 found | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 found | aux:pass |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 study | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 dishonest | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 dishonest | cop |
| 17 | dishonest | dishonest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 found | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 withdrawn | cc |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 withdrawn | aux:pass |
| 20 | withdrawn | withdraw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 found | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 2010 | case |
| 22 | 2010 | 2010 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 20 withdrawn | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 found | punct |
| 24 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 studies | amod |
| 25 | studies | study | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 found | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 millions | case |
| 27 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 studies | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 children | case |
| 29 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 millions | nmod |
| 30 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | parataxis |
| 31 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 32 link | det |
| 32 | link | link | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 found | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | present | MMR | autism | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition autism=Patient | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the claim | a 1998 study | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from study=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | find | past · passive | a 1998 study | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | a 1998 study not said here | dishonest property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | withdraw | past · passive | 2010 | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 6 | find | past | large studies of millions of children | no link | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent link=Topic | ||||
| 7 | study | millions of children | nom study «act transitive»: of=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:medicine:029-vaccinations-and-why.lesson:11.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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