Vaccinations and why, sentence 3
In 1796 Edward Jenner noticed that milkmaids who caught mild cowpox didn't get deadly smallpox, and he made the first vaccine from it; nearly two hundred years later vaccination wiped smallpox off the Earth.
Who acts: Edward Jenner, milkmaids, Jenner, vaccination · What happens: notice, catch, not get, make, wipe off · To what, where: 1796, mild cowpox, deadly smallpox, first vaccine, smallpox · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Edward Jenner, milkmaids, Jenner, vaccination), 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 1796 | case |
| 2 | 1796 | 1796 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 noticed | obl |
| 3 | Edward | Edward | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Jenner | compound |
| 4 | Jenner | Jenner | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 noticed | nsubj |
| 5 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 get | mark |
| 7 | milkmaids | milkmaid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 get | nsubj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 caught | nsubj |
| 9 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 milkmaids | acl:relcl |
| 10 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cowpox | amod |
| 11 | cowpox | cowpox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 caught | obj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 get | advmod |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 noticed | ccomp |
| 15 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 smallpox | amod |
| 16 | smallpox | smallpox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 made | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 made | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 made | nsubj |
| 20 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 noticed | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 vaccine | det |
| 22 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 vaccine | amod |
| 23 | vaccine | vaccine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 made | obj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 made | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 vaccination | punct |
| 27 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 29 hundred | advmod |
| 28 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 hundred | compound |
| 29 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 years | nummod |
| 30 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 later | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 32 vaccination | advmod |
| 32 | vaccination | vaccination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 wiped | nsubj |
| 33 | wiped | wipe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 noticed | parataxis |
| 34 | smallpox | smallpox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 wiped | obj |
| 35 | off | off | ADP | _ | 33 wiped | compound:prt |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Earth | det |
| 37 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 wiped | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | Edward Jenner | 1796 | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | milkmaids | mild cowpox | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cowpox=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not get | past · do-support | milkmaids | deadly smallpox | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smallpox=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | make | past | Jenner | the first vaccine | smallpox | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent vaccine=Product from it=Material | |||
| 5 | wipe off | past | vaccination | smallpox | the Earth obl | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent smallpox=Source |
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:3.
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, 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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