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title: The World Health Organization helped to wipe out smallpox, whose las… — Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth · tree and pragmatics
description: The World Health Organization helped to wipe out smallpox, whose last natural case was in 1977. Who acts: World Health Organization, last natural case. A sentence of the lesson «Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t
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# Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth, sentence 9

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The World Health Organization helped to wipe out smallpox, whose last natural case was in 1977.

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**Who acts:** World Health Organization, last natural case · **What happens:** help, wipe out, be · **To what, where:** smallpox, 1977

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Today's world: the UN, the EU and the Commonwealth» of the geography 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 (World Health Organization, last natural case), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:038-todays-world-the-un-the-eu-and-the-commonwealth.lesson:9
# text = The World Health Organization helped to wipe out smallpox, whose last natural case was in 1977.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 038-todays-world-the-un-the-eu-and-the-commonwealth.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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	World	World	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	Health	Health	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Organization	Organization	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	wipe	wipe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	smallpox	smallpox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	14	nmod:poss	_	_
12	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	1977	1977	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	acl:relcl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **help** | past | the World Health Organization |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **wipe out** | to-infinitive | the World Health Organization *not said here* | smallpox |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent smallpox=Source |
| 3 | **is** | past | last natural case |  |  | 1977 |  |  | tree rules |

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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:geography:038-todays-world-the-un-the-eu-and-the-commonwealth.lesson:9`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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