Germs, hygiene and vaccines, sentence 8
Antibiotics are medicines that kill bacteria, but they do not work against viruses such as the cold or the flu.
Who acts: Antibiotics, medicines · What happens: be, kill, not work · To what, where: medicines, bacteria
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 (Antibiotics, medicines), 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 | Antibiotics | antibiotic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 medicines | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 medicines | cop |
| 3 | medicines | medicine | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 kill | nsubj |
| 5 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 medicines | acl:relcl |
| 6 | bacteria | bacteria | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kill | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 work | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 work | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 work | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 work | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 work | advmod |
| 12 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 medicines | conj |
| 13 | against | against | ADP | _ | 14 viruses | case |
| 14 | viruses | virus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 work | obl |
| 15 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 viruses | amod |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 cold | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cold | det |
| 18 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 viruses | nmod |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 flu | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 flu | det |
| 21 | flu | flu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cold | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 medicines | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Antibiotics | medicines | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill | present | medicines | bacteria | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bacteria=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not work | present · do-support | Antibiotics = antibiotic | against viruses as the cold or the flu | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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:world:037-germs-hygiene-vaccines.lesson:8.
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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