--- title: In 1928 Alexander Fleming came back from holiday to a dish of germs… — Famous discoveries told as stories · tree and pragmatics description: In 1928 Alexander Fleming came back from holiday to a dish of germs he had not cleaned, saw a blob of mould, and noticed that the germs around it had died: that mould gave the world penicillin. Who acts: Alexander, germs, mould. 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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 (Alexander, germs, mould), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chemistry:035-famous-discoveries-stories.lesson:1 # text = In 1928 Alexander Fleming came back from holiday to a dish of germs he had not cleaned, saw a blob of mould, and noticed that the germs around it had died: that mould gave the world penicillin. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chemistry # lesson = 035-famous-discoveries-stories.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 ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1928 1928 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 3 Alexander Alexander PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 Fleming Fleming PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 5 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 back back ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 holiday holiday NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 dish dish NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 16 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 17 advmod _ _ 17 cleaned clean VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 acl:relcl _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 blob blob NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 mould mould NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 noticed notice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=19:conj 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 30 around around ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nmod _ _ 32 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 died die VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 26 ccomp _ _ 34 : : PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 35 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 36 det _ _ 36 mould mould NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=19:conj 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 iobj _ _ 40 penicillin penicillin NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | **come back** | past | Alexander | | | 1928 | | from holiday; to a dish of germs | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from holiday=Initial\_Location to dish=Destination | | 2 | **not** **clean** | past · perfect | Alexander | germs *not said here* | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent germ=Patient | | 3 | **see** | past | Alexander *not said here* | a blob of mould | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blob=Stimulus | | 4 | **notice** | past | Alexander *not said here* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **die** | past · perfect | the germs around mould | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 6 | **give** | past | that mould | the penicillin | world | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent world=Recipient penicillin=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:chemistry:035-famous-discoveries-stories.lesson:1`. **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 ×2. **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: [Famous discoveries told as stories, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/35-famous-discoveries-stories/0/) - next →: [Famous discoveries told as stories, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/35-famous-discoveries-stories/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/35-famous-discoveries-stories/)