--- title: The claim that MMR causes autism came from a 1998 study that was fou… — Vaccinations and why · tree and pragmatics description: The claim that MMR causes autism came from a 1998 study that was found to be dishonest and was withdrawn in 2010; large studies of millions of children found no link. Who acts: MMR, claim, 1998 study, large studies. 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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 (MMR, claim, 1998 study, large studies), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:029-vaccinations-and-why.lesson:11 # text = The claim that MMR causes autism came from a 1998 study that was found to be dishonest and was withdrawn in 2010; large studies of millions of children found no link. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 029-vaccinations-and-why.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 claim claim NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 MMR MMR PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 causes cause VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl _ _ 6 autism autism NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 1998 1998 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 study study NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 acl:relcl _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 cop _ _ 17 dishonest dishonest ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 withdrawn withdraw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 2010 2010 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 obl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=7:punct 24 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 studies study NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 30 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj 31 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 32 det _ _ 32 link link NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cause** | present | MMR | autism | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition autism=Patient | | 2 | **come** | past | the claim | | | a 1998 study | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from study=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **find** | past · passive | | a 1998 study | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | a 1998 study *not said here* | | | | | dishonest *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **withdraw** | past · passive | | | | 2010 | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V» | | 6 | **find** | past | large studies of millions of children | no link | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent link=Topic | | 7 | **study** | | | millions of children | | | | | nom study «act transitive»: of=patient | 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:029-vaccinations-and-why.lesson:11`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Vaccinations and why, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/29-vaccinations-and-why/10/) - next →: [Vaccinations and why, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/29-vaccinations-and-why/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/29-vaccinations-and-why/)