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title: We fight bad germs with soap and water, vaccines that train the body… — Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad · tree and pragmatics
description: We fight bad germs with soap and water, vaccines that train the body, antibiotics for bacteria, and a fever that turns up the body's heat while it fights. Who acts: We, vaccines, fever, heat. A sentence of the lesson «Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad» of the biology course of Mova's prim
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# Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad, sentence 4

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We fight bad germs with soap and water, vaccines that train the body, antibiotics for bacteria, and a fever that turns up the body's heat while it fights.

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**Who acts:** We, vaccines, fever, heat, body · **What happens:** fight, train, turn up, heat · **To what, where:** bad germs, body, heat

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Microbes: bacteria and viruses, good and bad» 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 (We, vaccines, fever, heat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:063-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses.lesson:4
# text = We fight bad germs with soap and water, vaccines that train the body, antibiotics for bacteria, and a fever that turns up the body's heat while it fights.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 063-microbes-bacteria-and-viruses.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	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fight	fight	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	vaccines	vaccine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	train	train	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
30	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	fights	fight	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | present | We | bad germs and a fever |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **train** | present | vaccines | the body |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme |
| 3 | **turn up** | present | a fever | the body's heat |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location heat=Theme |
| 4 | **fight** | present | heat |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **heat** |  | the body |  |  |  |  |  | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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