--- title: In 1847 Ignaz Semmelweis showed handwashing saved mothers' lives but… — Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 y… · tree and pragmatics description: In 1847 Ignaz Semmelweis showed handwashing saved mothers' lives but was mocked; in the 1860s to 1880s Pasteur and Koch proved that germs cause disease. Who acts: Ignaz, handwashing, Pasteur, germs. 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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 (Ignaz, handwashing, Pasteur, germs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:065-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day.lesson:17 # text = In 1847 Ignaz Semmelweis showed handwashing saved mothers' lives but was mocked; in the 1860s to 1880s Pasteur and Koch proved that germs cause disease. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 065-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 1847 1847 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 3 Ignaz Ignaz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 Semmelweis Semmelweis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 5 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 handwashing handwash NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 saved save VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 8 mothers mother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 ' 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 mocked mock VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 1860s 1860 NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 1880s 1880 NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:conj 20 Pasteur Pasteur PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 Koch Koch PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 23 proved prove VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 cause cause VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 ccomp _ _ 27 disease disease NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | past | Ignaz | | | 1847 | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **save** | past | handwashing | mothers's lives | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | | 3 | **mock** | past · passive | Ignaz *not said here* | | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP» | | 4 | **prove** | past | Pasteur and Koch | | | the 1860s to 1880s | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **cause** | present | germs | disease | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition disease=Patient | 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:history:065-light-machines-and-medicine-how-the-last-250-years-changed-a-normal-day.lesson:17`. **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): 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. 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