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title: The chickenpox virus can hide in nerves for decades and come back as… — The microscopic world: viruses and vaccines · tree and pragmatics
description: The chickenpox virus can hide in nerves for decades and come back as shingles, often when the immune system weakens with age; there are vaccines for both. Who acts: chickenpox virus, immune system, vaccines. A sentence of the lesson «The microscopic world: viruses and vaccines» of the biology course
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# The microscopic world: viruses and vaccines, sentence 13

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The chickenpox virus can hide in nerves for decades and come back as shingles, often when the immune system weakens with age; there are vaccines for both.

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**Who acts:** chickenpox virus, immune system, vaccines · **What happens:** hide, come back, weaken, be · **To what, where:** nerves

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The microscopic world: viruses and vaccines» 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 (chickenpox virus, immune system, vaccines), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:258-the-microscopic-world-viruses-and-vaccines.lesson:13
# text = The chickenpox virus can hide in nerves for decades and come back as shingles, often when the immune system weakens with age; there are vaccines for both.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 258-the-microscopic-world-viruses-and-vaccines.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	chickenpox	chickenpox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	virus	virus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	nerves	nerve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	decades	decade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	shingles	shingle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	often	often	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	immune	immune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	weakens	weaken	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
26	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
27	vaccines	vaccine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **hide** | can | the chickenpox virus |  |  | nerves | decade |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in nerve=Location |
| 2 | **come back** | infinitive | the chickenpox virus *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as shingles | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **weaken** | present | the immune system |  |  |  | with age | often *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with age=Instrument |
| 4 | **does** | present | vaccines for both |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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.

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