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title: In the 1800s Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch proved that germs cause m… — The age of science · tree and pragmatics
description: In the 1800s Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch proved that germs cause many diseases, and washing hands, clean water and pasteurised milk saved millions of lives. Who acts: Louis, germs. A sentence of the lesson «The age of science» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# The age of science, sentence 12

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In the 1800s Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch proved that germs cause many diseases, and washing hands, clean water and pasteurised milk saved millions of lives.

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**Who acts:** Louis, germs · **What happens:** prove, cause, wash, pasteurise, save · **To what, where:** 1800s, many diseases, hands, millions

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The age of science» of the history 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 (Louis, germs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:history:029-the-age-of-science.lesson:12
# text = In the 1800s Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch proved that germs cause many diseases, and washing hands, clean water and pasteurised milk saved millions of lives.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = history
# lesson = 029-the-age-of-science.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	1800s	1800	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	9	obl	_	_
4	Louis	Louis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	Pasteur	Pasteur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Robert	Robert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	Koch	Koch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	proved	prove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	cause	cause	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	diseases	disease	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	washing	wash	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	nsubj	_	_
18	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	pasteurised	pasteurise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
25	saved	save	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj
26	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **prove** | past | Louis and Robert |  |  | the 1800s |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **cause** | present | germs | many diseases |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition disease=Patient |
| 3 | **wash** | gerund |  | hands and clean water and pasteurised milk |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 4 | **pasteurise** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **save** | past |  | millions of lives |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent million=Theme |

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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:history:029-the-age-of-science.lesson:12`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×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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