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title: Antibiotics kill bacteria but do nothing against colds, which are ca… — Going to the doctor and the chemist · tree and pragmatics
description: Antibiotics kill bacteria but do nothing against colds, which are caused by viruses. Who acts: Antibiotics, viruses. A sentence of the lesson «Going to the doctor and the chemist» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Going to the doctor and the chemist, sentence 20

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Antibiotics kill bacteria but do nothing against colds, which are caused by viruses.

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**Who acts:** Antibiotics, viruses · **What happens:** kill, do, cause · **To what, where:** bacteria, nothing, colds

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Going to the doctor and the chemist» of the adult life 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, viruses), 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:20
# text = Antibiotics kill bacteria but do nothing against colds, which are caused by viruses.
# 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): no change
1	Antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kill	kill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	obj	_	_
7	against	against	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	colds	cold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	viruses	virus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | present | Antibiotics | bacteria |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bacteria=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | present | Antibiotics *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  | against colds | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
| 3 | **cause** | present · passive | viruses | colds |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient |

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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.

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**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:20`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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