--- title: A jab is a vaccine given by injection; it teaches the body to fight… — Going to the doctor and the chemist · tree and pragmatics description: A jab is a vaccine given by injection; it teaches the body to fight a disease, and a booster tops up the protection. Who acts: jab, injection, body, booster. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jab, injection, body, booster), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:adult-life:020-the-doctor-and-the-chemist.lesson:18 # text = A jab is a vaccine given by injection; it teaches the body to fight a disease, and a booster tops up the protection. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = adult-life # lesson = 020-the-doctor-and-the-chemist.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 jab jab NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 vaccine vaccine NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 6 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 by by ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 injection injection NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 teaches teach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 disease disease NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 booster booster NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 tops top VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 23 up up ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 protection protection NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | a jab | a vaccine | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **give** | participle | | a vaccine *not said here* | | | | by injection | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | injection | the body | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent body=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **fight** | to-infinitive | the body *not said here* | a disease | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disease=Co-Agent | | 5 | **top up** | present | a booster | the protection | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme protection=Co-Theme | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:adult-life:020-the-doctor-and-the-chemist.lesson:18`. **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): R6-punct-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Going to the doctor and the chemist, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/20-the-doctor-and-the-chemist/17/) - next →: [Going to the doctor and the chemist, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/20-the-doctor-and-the-chemist/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/20-the-doctor-and-the-chemist/)