Germs, the immune system and hand-washing, sentence 13

Lymph nodes, often called glands, are part of the immune system and swell while fighting an infection, such as in the neck during a cold.

Who acts: Lymph nodes · What happens: call, be, swell, fight · To what, where: glands, part, infection · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Germs, the immune system and hand-washing» 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 (Lymph nodes), 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	Lymph	lymph	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 nodes	compound
2	nodes	node	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 part	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 glands	punct
4	often	often	ADV	_	5 called	advmod
5	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 glands	acl
6	glands	gland	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 nodes	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 nodes	punct
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 part	cop
9	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 system	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 system	det
12	immune	immune	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 system	compound
13	system	system	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 part	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 swell	cc
15	swell	swell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 part	conj
16	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 fighting	mark
17	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 swell	advcl
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 infection	det
19	infection	infection	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fighting	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 neck	punct
21	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	25 neck	case
22	as	as	ADP	_	21 such	fixed
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 neck	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 neck	det
25	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 infection	conj
26	during	during	ADP	_	28 cold	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 cold	det
28	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fighting	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 part	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle		glands not said here		often property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	Lymph nodes	part		of the immune system	tree rules
3	swell	present	Lymph nodes not said here				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	fight	gerund	Lymph nodes not said here	a infection and the neck	during a cold		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent infection=Co-Agent

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:030-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing.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): R8-pos-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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