--- title: Some scientists think meeting many harmless germs outdoors and with… — The microscopic world: bacteria, good and bad · tree and pragmatics description: Some scientists think meeting many harmless germs outdoors and with animals trains a child's immune system, but this is still studied and never means skipping handwashing before eating or after the toilet. Who acts: scientists, meeting. 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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 (scientists, meeting), 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:18 # text = Some scientists think meeting many harmless germs outdoors and with animals trains a child's immune system, but this is still studied and never means skipping handwashing before eating or after the toilet. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 2 det _ _ 2 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 meeting meet VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 csubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj 5 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 harmless harmless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 8 outdoors outdoors ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ _ 12 trains train VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ _ 15 's 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 16 immune immune ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 17 system system NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux:pass _ _ 22 still still ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 studied study VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 27 skipping skip VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:obj 28 handwashing handwash NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 before before SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 30 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 after after ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 toilet toilet NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | some scientists | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **meet** | gerund | | many harmless germs | | | | outdoors *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Co-Agent | | 3 | **train** | present | meeting | a child's immune system | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent system=Theme | | 4 | **study** | present · passive | | this | | | still | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 5 | **not** **mean** | present | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **skip** *not said to happen* | gerund | | handwashing | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handwash=Agent | | 7 | **eat** | gerund | | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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: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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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