--- title: Gut bacteria help digest food, make some vitamins and protect agains… — The microscopic world: bacteria, good and bad · tree and pragmatics description: Gut bacteria help digest food, make some vitamins and protect against harmful germs. Who acts: Gut bacteria. A sentence of the lesson «The microscopic world: bacteria, good and bad» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The microscopic world: bacteria, good…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad/) / 10 # The microscopic world: bacteria, good and bad, sentence 10 Gut bacteria help digest food, make some vitamins and protect against harmful germs. **Who acts:** Gut bacteria · **What happens:** help, digest, make, protect · **To what, where:** food, vitamins This is a sentence of the lesson «The microscopic world: bacteria, good and bad» 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 (Gut bacteria), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad.lesson:10 # text = Gut bacteria help digest food, make some vitamins and protect against harmful germs. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad.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): R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Gut gut NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 bacteria bacterium NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 help help VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 4 digest digest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 5 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 8 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 9 det _ _ 9 vitamins vitamin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 12 against against ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 harmful harmful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 15 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **help** | present | Gut bacteria | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **digest** | infinitive | Gut bacteria *not said here* | food | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | infinitive | Gut bacteria *not said here* | some vitamins | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset vitamin=Product | | 4 | **protect** | infinitive | Gut bacteria *not said here* | | | | | against harmful germs | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent against germ=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:biology:257-the-microscopic-world-bacteria-good-and-bad.lesson:10`. **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): R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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