--- title: What really happened: Fleming noticed in 1928 that a mould killed ge… — Light, machines and medicine: how the last 250 y… · tree and pragmatics description: What really happened: Fleming noticed in 1928 that a mould killed germs, but it took Florey, Chain and many others until the 1940s to turn it into a medicine. Who acts: Fleming, mould, it. 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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, it), 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:3 # text = What really happened: Fleming noticed in 1928 that a mould killed germs, but it took Florey, Chain and many others until the 1940s to turn it into a medicine. # 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): R5-strong ×5, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ _ 2 really really ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 4 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct 5 Fleming Fleming PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 noticed notice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 1928 1928 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 9 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 mould mould NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 killed kill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 13 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:expl 17 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 18 Florey Florey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:compound 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 Chain Chain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 24 until until ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 1940s 1940 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 17 obl _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 into into ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | past | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **notice** | past | Fleming | | | 1928 | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **kill** | past | a mould | germs | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme | | 4 | **take** | past | it | | Florey and Chain and many others | | until the 1940s | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument florey=Destination | | 5 | **turn** | to-infinitive | | other | | a medicine | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into medicine=Trajectory | 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:3`. **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 ×5, 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. 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