--- title: Fleming noticed in 1928 that mould killed bacteria; Florey, Chain an… — Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 y… · tree and pragmatics description: Fleming noticed in 1928 that mould killed bacteria; Florey, Chain and others turned penicillin into a medicine in the 1940s; antibiotics do not work against viruses like colds. Who acts: Fleming, mould, Florey, antibiotics. 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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 (Fleming, mould, Florey, antibiotics), 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:18 # text = Fleming noticed in 1928 that mould killed bacteria; Florey, Chain and others turned penicillin into a medicine in the 1940s; antibiotics do not work against viruses like colds. # 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): R2-punct-next ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Fleming Fleming PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 noticed notice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 1928 1928 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 2 obl _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 mould mould NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 killed kill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 8 bacteria bacteria NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 10 Florey Florey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=10:punct 12 Chain Chain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 15 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 16 penicillin penicillin NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 17 into into ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 1940s 1940 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 15 obl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct 24 antibiotics antibiotic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 25 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 28 against against ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 viruses virus NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 30 like like ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 colds cold NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **notice** | past | Fleming | | | 1928 | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **kill** | past | mould | bacteria | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bacteria=Theme | | 3 | **turn** | past | Florey and Chain and others | penicillin | | a medicine | | in the 1940s | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent penicillin=Patient into medicine=Recipient in 1940=Topic | | 4 | **not** **work** | present · do-support | antibiotics | | | | | against viruses like colds | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:18`. **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): R2-punct-next ×3, 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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