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title: Antibiotic resistance means the bacteria change so the medicine stop… — Antibiotics, viruses and side effects · tree and pragmatics
description: Antibiotic resistance means the bacteria change so the medicine stops working; it is the bacteria that become resistant, not the person's body. Who acts: Antibiotic resistance, bacteria, medicine, resistance. A sentence of the lesson «Antibiotics, viruses and side effects» of the medicine course of 
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# Antibiotics, viruses and side effects, sentence 8

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Antibiotic resistance means the bacteria change so the medicine stops working; it is the bacteria that become resistant, not the person's body.

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**Who acts:** Antibiotic resistance, bacteria, medicine, resistance · **What happens:** mean, change, stop, work, be, become · **To what, where:** bacteria · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Antibiotic resistance, bacteria, medicine, resistance), 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:8
# text = Antibiotic resistance means the bacteria change so the medicine stops working; it is the bacteria that become resistant, not the person's body.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4
1	Antibiotic	antibiotic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	resistance	resistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det
5	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
6	change	change	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
11	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	become	become	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	resistant	resistant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **mean** | present | Antibiotic resistance |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **change** | present | the bacteria |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stop** | present | the medicine |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **work** | gerund | the medicine *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | present | resistance | the bacteria |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **become** | present | the bacteria |  |  |  |  | resistant *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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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