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title: Smallpox killed hundreds of millions of people; after a worldwide va… — Vaccinations and why · tree and pragmatics
description: Smallpox killed hundreds of millions of people; after a worldwide vaccination campaign the last natural case was in 1977 and it was declared wiped out in 1980; this was possible because there was a good vaccine and smallpox lived only in people, with no animals to hide in. Who acts: Smallpox, last n
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# Vaccinations and why, sentence 14

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Smallpox killed hundreds of millions of people; after a worldwide vaccination campaign the last natural case was in 1977 and it was declared wiped out in 1980; this was possible because there was a good vaccine and smallpox lived only in people, with no animals to hide in.

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**Who acts:** Smallpox, last natural case, this, good vaccine · **What happens:** kill, be, declare, wipe out, live, hide · **To what, where:** hundreds, 1977, case, 1980

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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 (Smallpox, last natural case, this, good vaccine), 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:14
# text = Smallpox killed hundreds of millions of people; after a worldwide vaccination campaign the last natural case was in 1977 and it was declared wiped out in 1980; this was possible because there was a good vaccine and smallpox lived only in people, with no animals to hide in.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Smallpox	smallpox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	worldwide	worldwide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	vaccination	vaccination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	campaign	campaign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	1977	1977	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	declared	declare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
25	wiped	wipe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	xcomp	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	1980	1980	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	obl	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=2:punct
30	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
33	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	35	expl	_	_
35	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	vaccine	vaccine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	smallpox	smallpox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
42	only	only	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	48	det	_	_
48	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obl	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	hide	hide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	acl	_	_
51	in	in	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=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 | **kill** | past | Smallpox | hundreds of millions of people |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past | the last natural case |  |  | 1977 | after a worldwide vaccination campaign |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in 1977=Location |
| 3 | **declare** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | case |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **wipe out** | participle |  |  |  | 1980 |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in 1980=Trajectory |
| 5 | **is** | past | this |  |  |  |  | possible *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** | past | a good vaccine |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **live** | past | smallpox |  |  |  |  | in people; with no animals | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in people=Location |
| 8 | **hide** | to-infinitive | smallpox *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

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