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title: In 1796 Edward Jenner protected a boy from smallpox by giving him th… — The age of science · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1796 Edward Jenner protected a boy from smallpox by giving him the much milder cowpox. Who acts: Edward Jenner. A sentence of the lesson «The age of science» of the history course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The age of science, sentence 13

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In 1796 Edward Jenner protected a boy from smallpox by giving him the much milder cowpox.

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**Who acts:** Edward Jenner · **What happens:** protect, give · **To what, where:** boy, 1796, milder cowpox

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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 (Edward Jenner), 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:13
# text = In 1796 Edward Jenner protected a boy from smallpox by giving him the much milder cowpox.
# 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
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1796	1796	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
3	Edward	Edward	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Jenner	Jenner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	protected	protect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	smallpox	smallpox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod
10	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	much	much	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	milder	mild	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	cowpox	cowpox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
17	.	.	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 | **protect** | past | Edward Jenner |  | a boy | 1796 |  | from smallpox | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent boy=Beneficiary from smallpox=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | gerund | Edward Jenner *not said here* | the milder cowpox | boy |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cowpox=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:13`.

**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. **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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