Germs, the immune system and hand-washing, sentence 17
Contact with nature and many kinds of microbes may help a child's immune system develop, though scientists are still studying the details.
Who acts: Contact, immune system, scientists · What happens: help, develop, study · To what, where: immune system, details
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 (Contact, immune system, scientists), 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 | Contact | contact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 help | nsubj |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 nature | case |
| 3 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Contact | nmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 kinds | cc |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kinds | amod |
| 6 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 nature | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 microbes | case |
| 8 | microbes | microbe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 kinds | nmod |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 help | aux |
| 10 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 child | det |
| 12 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 system | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 child | case |
| 14 | immune | immune | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 system | amod |
| 15 | system | system | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 help | obj |
| 16 | develop | develop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 help | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 studying | punct |
| 18 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 22 studying | mark |
| 19 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 studying | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 studying | aux |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 studying | advmod |
| 22 | studying | study | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 help | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 details | det |
| 24 | details | detail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 studying | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 help | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | may | Contact with nature and many kinds of microbes | a child's immune system | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent system=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | develop | infinitive | a child's immune system not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | study | present · progressive | scientists | the details | still | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detail=Topic |
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: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): no change. 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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