--- title: Herd immunity means that when most people are immune, a germ can't s… — Vaccinations and why · tree and pragmatics description: Herd immunity means that when most people are immune, a germ can't spread easily, protecting those who can't be vaccinated; for measles about 95 in every 100 people need to be immune. Who acts: Herd immunity, most people, germ, 95. A sentence of the lesson «Vaccinations and why» of the medicine cour --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/29-vaccinations-and-why/12/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / [Vaccinations and why](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/29-vaccinations-and-why/) / 12 # Vaccinations and why, sentence 12 Herd immunity means that when most people are immune, a germ can't spread easily, protecting those who can't be vaccinated; for measles about 95 in every 100 people need to be immune. **Who acts:** Herd immunity, most people, germ, 95 · **What happens:** mean, be, not spread, protect, not vaccinate, need · **To what, where:** those, measles · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Vaccinations and why» 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 (Herd immunity, most people, germ, 95), 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:12 # text = Herd immunity means that when most people are immune, a germ can't spread easily, protecting those who can't be vaccinated; for measles about 95 in every 100 people need to be immune. # 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): no change 1 Herd herd NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 immunity immunity NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 6 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 7 amod _ _ 7 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 immune immune ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 advcl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 germ germ NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 13 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 spread spread VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 16 easily easily ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 protecting protect VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 19 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 18 obj _ _ 20 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 21 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 22 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 vaccinated vaccinate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl:relcl _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 measles measle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 28 about about ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 95 95 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 34 nsubj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 33 det _ _ 32 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 34 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 36 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 37 cop _ _ 37 immune immune ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 xcomp _ _ 38 . . 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 | **mean** | present | Herd immunity | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **is** | present | most people | | | | | immune *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **spread** | can | a germ | | | | | easily *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **protect** | gerund | a germ *not said here* | those | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary | | 5 | **not** **vaccinate** | can · passive | | measles | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **need** | present | 95 in every 100 people | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot | | 7 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | 95 in every 100 people *not said here* | | | | | immune *property* | tree rules | 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:12`. **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): no change. **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, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/29-vaccinations-and-why/11/) - next →: [Vaccinations and why, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/29-vaccinations-and-why/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/29-vaccinations-and-why/)