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title: In type 1 diabetes the immune system has destroyed the insulin-makin… — A classmate with diabetes, and other long-term c… · tree and pragmatics
description: In type 1 diabetes the immune system has destroyed the insulin-making cells of the pancreas, an organ behind the stomach; insulin lets sugar from food into cells for energy. Who acts: immune system, insulin. A sentence of the lesson «A classmate with diabetes, and other long-term conditions» of the 
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# A classmate with diabetes, and other long-term conditions, sentence 5

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In type 1 diabetes the immune system has destroyed the insulin-making cells of the pancreas, an organ behind the stomach; insulin lets sugar from food into cells for energy.

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**Who acts:** immune system, insulin · **What happens:** destroy, make, let · **To what, where:** insulin, type diabetes, sugar, food

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This is a sentence of the lesson «A classmate with diabetes, and other long-term conditions» of the medicine 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 (immune system, insulin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:016-a-classmate-with-diabetes-and-other-long-term-conditions.lesson:5
# text = In type 1 diabetes the immune system has destroyed the insulin-making cells of the pancreas, an organ behind the stomach; insulin lets sugar from food into cells for energy.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 016-a-classmate-with-diabetes-and-other-long-term-conditions.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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	type	type	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	_
4	diabetes	diabetes	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	immune	immune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:det
11	insulin	insulin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_
13	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:acl
14	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:obj
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	pancreas	pancreas	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	organ	organ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
21	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	insulin	insulin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
27	sugar	sugar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
34	.	.	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 | **destroy** | present · perfect | the immune system | insulin and a organ behind the stomach |  | type diabetes |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **let** | present | insulin | sugar |  | food |  | into cells; for energy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent sugar=Theme for energy=Asset |

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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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**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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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