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title: A vaccine shows the immune system a harmless copy or piece of a germ… — Staying healthy: germs, vaccines, sleep, food an… · tree and pragmatics
description: A vaccine shows the immune system a harmless copy or piece of a germ, and memory cells then destroy the real germ fast; Edward Jenner made the first vaccine with cowpox in 1796, and vaccines helped wipe out smallpox by 1980. Who acts: vaccine, memory cells, Edward, vaccines. A sentence of the lesson
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# Staying healthy: germs, vaccines, sleep, food and exercise, sentence 6

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A vaccine shows the immune system a harmless copy or piece of a germ, and memory cells then destroy the real germ fast; Edward Jenner made the first vaccine with cowpox in 1796, and vaccines helped wipe out smallpox by 1980.

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**Who acts:** vaccine, memory cells, Edward, vaccines · **What happens:** show, destroy, make, help, wipe out, copy · **To what, where:** harmless copy, immune system, real germ, first vaccine, 1796, smallpox

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Staying healthy: germs, vaccines, sleep, food and exercise» 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 (vaccine, memory cells, Edward, vaccines), 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:6
# text = A vaccine shows the immune system a harmless copy or piece of a germ, and memory cells then destroy the real germ fast; Edward Jenner made the first vaccine with cowpox in 1796, and vaccines helped wipe out smallpox by 1980.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	vaccine	vaccine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	immune	immune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	iobj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	harmless	harmless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	copy	copy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	germ	germ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
20	destroy	destroy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	germ	germ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	Edward	Edward	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	Jenner	Jenner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	_
28	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	31	amod	_	_
31	vaccine	vaccine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	cowpox	cowpox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	1796	1796	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	obl	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=38:punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc
38	vaccines	vaccine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
39	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj
40	wipe	wipe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
41	out	out	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	_
42	smallpox	smallpox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	by	by	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	1980	1980	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	40	obl	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **show** | present | a vaccine | a harmless copy of a germ or piece | the immune system |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent system=Recipient copy=Topic |
| 2 | **destroy** | present | memory cells | the real germ |  |  | then | fast *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | past | Edward | the first vaccine |  | 1796 |  | with cowpox | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vaccine=Product |
| 4 | **help** | past | vaccines |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **wipe out** | infinitive | vaccines *not said here* | smallpox |  |  |  | by 1980 | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent smallpox=Theme by 1980=Trajectory |
| 6 | **copy** |  |  | a germ |  |  |  |  | nom copy «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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