Germs, hygiene and vaccines, sentence 21

Doctors found that washing hands saves lives; Ignaz Semmelweis showed it in a hospital in the 1840s, where fewer mothers died of infection once doctors washed their hands.

Who acts: Doctors, washing, Ignaz, fewer mothers · What happens: find, wash, save, show, die · To what, where: hands, lives, bacteria · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Germs, hygiene and vaccines» of the world 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 (Doctors, washing, Ignaz, fewer mothers), 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	Doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 saves	mark
4	washing	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 saves	csubj
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 washing	obj
6	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 found	ccomp
7	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 saves	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 showed	punct
9	Ignaz	Ignaz	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 showed	nsubj
10	Semmelweis	Semmelweis	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Ignaz	flat
11	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 showed	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 hospital	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hospital	det
15	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 showed	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 1840s	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 1840s	det
18	1840s	1840	NOUN	Number=Ptan NumForm=Combi NumType=Card	15 hospital	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 died	punct
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 died	advmod
21	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 mothers	amod
22	mothers	mother	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 died	nsubj
23	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 hospital	acl:relcl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 infection	case
25	infection	infection	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 died	obl
26	once	once	SCONJ	_	28 washed	mark
27	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 washed	nsubj
28	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 died	advcl
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 hands	nmod:poss
30	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 washed	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	past	Doctors			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	wash	gerund		hands		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
3	save	present	washing	lives		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
4	show	past	Ignaz	bacteria	in a hospital in the 1840s	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Patient in hospital=Topic
5	die	past	fewer mothers		of infection	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of infection=Causer
6	wash	past	doctors	Doctors's hands		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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:world:037-germs-hygiene-vaccines.lesson:21.

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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