--- title: That is why your doctor says to finish the antibiotics: if you stop… — Natural selection we can watch: moths, finches,… · tree and pragmatics description: That is why your doctor says to finish the antibiotics: if you stop early, the toughest germs survive and multiply, and medicine slowly stops working on them. Who acts: That, doctor, you, toughest germs. 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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 (That, doctor, you, toughest germs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:279-natural-selection-we-can-watch-moths-finches-germs-and-tuskless-elephants.lesson:3 # text = That is why your doctor says to finish the antibiotics: if you stop early, the toughest germs survive and multiply, and medicine slowly stops working on them. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 279-natural-selection-we-can-watch-moths-finches-germs-and-tuskless-elephants.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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Rel 0 root _ _ 4 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl:relcl _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 finish finish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 antibiotics antibiotic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 12 if if SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 15 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 14 advmod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 toughest tough ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 19 amod _ _ 19 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 survive survive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl:relcl 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 multiply multiply VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advcl:relcl 28 working work VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 xcomp _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | That | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | your doctor | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **finish** | to-infinitive | your doctor *not said here* | the antibiotics | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality antibiotic=Eventuality | | 4 | **stop** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | early *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **survive** | present | the toughest germs | | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **multiply** | present | the toughest germs *not said here* | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **stop** | present | medicine | | | | | slowly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 8 | **work** | gerund | medicine *not said here* | | | | | on germs *= germ* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on they=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:279-natural-selection-we-can-watch-moths-finches-germs-and-tuskless-elephants.lesson:3`. **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 ×1, R8-pos-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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