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title: Antibiotics kill bacteria or stop them multiplying, and they have no… — Antibiotics, viruses and side effects · tree and pragmatics
description: Antibiotics kill bacteria or stop them multiplying, and they have no effect on viruses. Who acts: Antibiotics. A sentence of the lesson «Antibiotics, viruses and side effects» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Antibiotics, viruses and side effects, sentence 5

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Antibiotics kill bacteria or stop them multiplying, and they have no effect on viruses.

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**Who acts:** Antibiotics · **What happens:** kill, stop, multiply, have · **To what, where:** bacteria, Antibiotics, effect, viruses

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Antibiotics, viruses and side effects» 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 (Antibiotics), 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:5
# text = Antibiotics kill bacteria or stop them multiplying, and they have no effect on viruses.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kill	kill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
3	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	multiplying	multiply	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	xcomp	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	viruses	virus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **kill** | present | Antibiotics | bacteria |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bacteria=Theme |
| 2 | **stop** | present | Antibiotics *not said here* | Antibiotics *= antibiotic* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **multiply** | gerund | Antibiotics *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **have** | present | Antibiotics *= antibiotic* | no effect |  | viruses |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient |

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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): 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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