Germs, the immune system and hand-washing, sentence 7
White blood cells find and destroy germs, and some make antibodies that stick to germs and are remembered for next time.
Who acts: White blood cells, some, antibodies · What happens: find, destroy, make, stick, remember · To what, where: germs, antibodies
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 (White blood cells, some, antibodies), 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 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cells | amod |
| 2 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cells | compound |
| 3 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 find | nsubj |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 destroy | cc |
| 6 | destroy | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | conj |
| 7 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 destroy | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 make | cc |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 make | nsubj |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | conj |
| 12 | antibodies | antibody | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 make | obj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 stick | nsubj |
| 14 | stick | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 antibodies | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 germs | case |
| 16 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 stick | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 remembered | cc |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 remembered | aux:pass |
| 19 | remembered | remember | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 stick | conj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 21 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 time | amod |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 remembered | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | White blood cells | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | destroy | present | White blood cells not said here | germs | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | present | some | antibodies | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset antibody=Product | ||||
| 4 | stick | present | antibodies | to germs | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to germ=Co-Patient | ||||
| 5 | remember | present · passive | antibodies not said here | time | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING» |
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:7.
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 ×3. 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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