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title: Vaccines given by injection protect pets by helping their bodies lea… — The vet · tree and pragmatics
description: Vaccines given by injection protect pets by helping their bodies learn to fight illnesses. Who acts: Vaccines, bodies. A sentence of the lesson «The vet» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The vet, sentence 5

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Vaccines given by injection protect pets by helping their bodies learn to fight illnesses.

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**Who acts:** Vaccines, bodies · **What happens:** give, protect, help, learn, fight · **To what, where:** Vaccines, pets, illnesses

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The vet» of the biology 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 (Vaccines, bodies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:227-the-vet.lesson:5
# text = Vaccines given by injection protect pets by helping their bodies learn to fight illnesses.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 227-the-vet.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Vaccines	vaccine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	injection	injection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	protect	protect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	helping	help	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	learn	learn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:ccomp
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	illnesses	illness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **give** | participle |  | Vaccines *not said here* |  |  |  | by injection | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **protect** | present | Vaccines |  | pets |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **help** | gerund | Vaccines *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **learn** | present | pets's bodies |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **fight** | to-infinitive | pets's bodies *not said here* | illnesses |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent illness=Co-Agent |

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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:biology:227-the-vet.lesson:5`.

**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.

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

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