--- title: A vaccine is a wanted poster for a germ: the immune system studies a… — Staying healthy: germs, vaccines, sleep, food an… · tree and pragmatics description: A vaccine is a wanted poster for a germ: the immune system studies a harmless copy, remembers it, and destroys the real germ fast if it ever turns up. Who acts: vaccine, immune system. 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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 (vaccine, immune system), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:072-staying-healthy.lesson:2 # text = A vaccine is a wanted poster for a germ: the immune system studies a harmless copy, remembers it, and destroys the real germ fast if it ever turns up. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 072-staying-healthy.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 vaccine vaccine NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 wanted want VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 6 poster poster NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 germ germ NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:det 12 immune immune ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:amod 13 system system NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:compound 14 studies study VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 harmless harmless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 copy copy NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 remembers remember VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 destroys destroy VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=19:conj 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 germ germ NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 fast fast ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 28 if if SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 31 advmod _ _ 31 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 32 up up ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** | participle | | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **is a** | present | a vaccine | a wanted poster | | | | for a germ | tree rules | | 3 | **study** | present | the immune system | a harmless copy | | | | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent copy=Topic | | 4 | **remember** | present | the immune system *not said here* | system | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **destroy** | present | the immune system *not said here* | the real germ | | | | fast *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Patient | | 6 | **turn up** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | vaccine | | | | ever | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:072-staying-healthy.lesson:2`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Staying healthy: germs, vaccines, slee…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/72-staying-healthy/1/) - next →: [Staying healthy: germs, vaccines, slee…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/72-staying-healthy/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/72-staying-healthy/)