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title: Colds are caused by viruses, and antibiotics only work on bacteria,… — The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body a… · tree and pragmatics
description: Colds are caused by viruses, and antibiotics only work on bacteria, so rest, drinks and time help a cold, and using antibiotics wrongly helps resistant bacteria spread. Who acts: viruses, antibiotics, rest, using. A sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes»
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# The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes, sentence 11

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Colds are caused by viruses, and antibiotics only work on bacteria, so rest, drinks and time help a cold, and using antibiotics wrongly helps resistant bacteria spread.

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**Who acts:** viruses, antibiotics, rest, using · **What happens:** cause, work, help, use, spread · **To what, where:** Colds, cold, antibiotics

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 2: plants, the body and microbes» 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 (viruses, antibiotics, rest, using), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes.lesson:11
# text = Colds are caused by viruses, and antibiotics only work on bacteria, so rest, drinks and time help a cold, and using antibiotics wrongly helps resistant bacteria spread.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 299-the-big-biology-quiz-part-2-plants-the-body-and-microbes.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Colds	cold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	caused	cause	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	viruses	virus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	work	work	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
15	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	drinks	drink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=17:conj
20	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	using	use	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	csubj	_	_
26	antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
27	wrongly	wrongly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
29	resistant	resistant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | present · passive | viruses | Colds |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient |
| 2 | **work** | present | antibiotics |  |  |  |  | on bacteria | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on bacteria=Theme |
| 3 | **help** | present | rest and drinks and time | a cold |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **use** | gerund |  | antibiotics |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antibiotic=Patient |
| 5 | **help** | present | using |  |  |  |  | wrongly *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **spread** | infinitive | using *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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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