--- title: Alexander Fleming noticed in 1928 that a mould killed bacteria on a… — Antibiotics, viruses and side effects · tree and pragmatics description: Alexander Fleming noticed in 1928 that a mould killed bacteria on a dish, and Howard Florey, Ernst Chain and their team turned penicillin into a medicine in the 1940s; eating mouldy food is not a medicine and can make you ill. Who acts: Alexander, mould, Howard, eating. 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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 (Alexander, mould, Howard, eating), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:019-antibiotics-viruses-and-side-effects.lesson:15 # text = Alexander Fleming noticed in 1928 that a mould killed bacteria on a dish, and Howard Florey, Ernst Chain and their team turned penicillin into a medicine in the 1940s; eating mouldy food is not a medicine and can make you ill. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 019-antibiotics-viruses-and-side-effects.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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Alexander Alexander PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Fleming Fleming PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 flat _ _ 3 noticed notice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 1928 1928 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 obl _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 mould mould NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 killed kill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 10 bacteria bacteria NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 dish dish NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 16 Howard Howard PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 17 Florey Florey PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 flat _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 19 Ernst Ernst PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 Chain chain NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 team team NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 24 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 penicillin penicillin NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 26 into into ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 1940s 1940 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 24 obl _ _ 32 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 csubj _ _ 34 mouldy mouldy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 conj _ _ 43 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ _ 44 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 xcomp _ _ 45 . . 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 | **notice** | past | Alexander | | | 1928 | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **kill** | past | a mould | bacteria | | a dish | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bacteria=Theme | | 3 | **turn** | past | Howard | 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 | **eat** | gerund | | mouldy food | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | | 5 | **not** **is a** | present | eating | a medicine | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **make** | can | eating *not said here* | you | | | | ill *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product | 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:medicine:019-antibiotics-viruses-and-side-effects.lesson:15`. **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): R6-punct-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Antibiotics, viruses and side effects, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/19-antibiotics-viruses-and-side-effects/14/) - next →: [Antibiotics, viruses and side effects, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/19-antibiotics-viruses-and-side-effects/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/19-antibiotics-viruses-and-side-effects/)