--- title: In 1847 the doctor Ignaz Semmelweis found that handwashing by doctor… — The microscopic world: bacteria, good and bad · tree and pragmatics description: In 1847 the doctor Ignaz Semmelweis found that handwashing by doctors saved mothers' lives, but many other doctors laughed at him, because nobody yet knew that germs spread illness. Who acts: doctor, handwashing, many other doctors, nobody. 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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 (doctor, handwashing, many other doctors, nobody), 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:12 # text = In 1847 the doctor Ignaz Semmelweis found that handwashing by doctors saved mothers' lives, but many other doctors laughed at him, because nobody yet knew that germs spread illness. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1847 1847 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 7 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 Ignaz Ignaz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 6 Semmelweis Semmelweis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 7 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 9 handwashing handwashing NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 10 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 doctors doctor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 12 saved save VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 13 mothers mother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod:poss _ _ 14 ' 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 doctors doctor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nsubj _ _ 21 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 22 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 because because SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 28 nsubj _ _ 27 yet yet ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 ccomp _ _ 32 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past | the doctor | | | 1847 | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **save** | past | handwashing by doctors | mothers's lives | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | | 3 | **laugh** | past | many other doctors | | | | | at handwashing | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **know** | past | nobody | | | | yet | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **spread** | past | germs | illness | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location illness=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:12`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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. 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