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title: Tetanus is caused by a germ in soil and dirt, not by rust; a deep cu… — Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: Tetanus is caused by a germ in soil and dirt, not by rust; a deep cut from any dirty object can let it in, and vaccination protects you. Who acts: germ, deep cut, vaccination. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with
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# Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★, sentence 8

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Tetanus is caused by a germ in soil and dirt, not by rust; a deep cut from any dirty object can let it in, and vaccination protects you.

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**Who acts:** germ, deep cut, vaccination · **What happens:** cause, let in, protect · **To what, where:** Tetanus, rust, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: everyday chemistry detectives ★★★» of the chemistry 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 (germ, deep cut, vaccination), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:037-olympiad-everyday-chemistry-detectives.lesson:8
# text = Tetanus is caused by a germ in soil and dirt, not by rust; a deep cut from any dirty object can let it in, and vaccination protects you.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 037-olympiad-everyday-chemistry-detectives.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Tetanus	tetanus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|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	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	germ	germ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:agent	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	dirt	dirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	rust	rust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	cut	cut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
21	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	in	in	ADV	RB	_	24	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	vaccination	vaccination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	protects	protect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- 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 | a germ in soil and dirt and rust | Tetanus |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient |
| 2 | **let in** | can | a deep cut from any dirty object | rust |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **protect** | present | vaccination |  | you |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |

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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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**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:037-olympiad-everyday-chemistry-detectives.lesson:8`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, 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/).

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