Germs, hygiene and vaccines, sentence 6
A vaccine teaches the body this lesson safely: it shows the body a weakened, killed or harmless part of a germ, so the body makes antibodies without getting really ill.
Who acts: vaccine, body · What happens: teach, show, weaken, kill, make, get · To what, where: lesson, body, weakened harmless part, antibodies
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 (vaccine, body), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 vaccine | det |
| 2 | vaccine | vaccine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 teaches | nsubj |
| 3 | teaches | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 body | det |
| 5 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 teaches | iobj |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 lesson | det |
| 7 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 teaches | obj |
| 8 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 3 teaches | advmod |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 shows | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 shows | nsubj |
| 11 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 teaches | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 body | det |
| 13 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shows | iobj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 part | det |
| 15 | weakened | weaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 part | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 killed | punct |
| 17 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 weakened | conj |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 part | cc |
| 19 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 part | amod |
| 20 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shows | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 germ | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 germ | det |
| 23 | germ | germ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 part | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 makes | punct |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 makes | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 body | det |
| 27 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 makes | nsubj |
| 28 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 shows | conj |
| 29 | antibodies | antibody | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 makes | obj |
| 30 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 31 getting | mark |
| 31 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 makes | advcl |
| 32 | really | really | ADV | _ | 33 ill | advmod |
| 33 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 getting | xcomp |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 teaches | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | present | a vaccine | this lesson | the body | safely property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent body=Recipient lesson=Topic | ||
| 2 | show | present | body | a weakened harmless part of a germ | the body | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent body=Recipient part=Topic | |||
| 3 | weaken | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | kill | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | make | present | the body | antibodies | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset antibody=Product | ||||
| 6 | get | gerund | the body not said here | ill property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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:6.
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): 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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