--- title: Polio can cause paralysis; vaccination has made it rare, and the wil… — Vaccinations and why · tree and pragmatics description: Polio can cause paralysis; vaccination has made it rare, and the wild virus is still found mainly in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Who acts: Polio, vaccination. 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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 (Polio, vaccination), 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:15 # text = Polio can cause paralysis; vaccination has made it rare, and the wild virus is still found mainly in Pakistan and Afghanistan. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Polio polio NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 cause cause VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 paralysis paralysis NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 ; ; PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 vaccination vaccination NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:advcl 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 10 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 virus virus NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 17 still still ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 19 mainly mainly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Pakistan Pakistan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 Afghanistan Afghanistan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 . . 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 | **cause** | can | Polio | paralysis | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition paralysis=Patient | | 2 | **make** | present · perfect | vaccination | | | | | rare *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **find** | present · passive | | the wild virus | | Pakistan and Afghanistan | still | mainly *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | 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:15`. **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): R7-rel-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/). - ← previous: [Vaccinations and why, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/29-vaccinations-and-why/14/) - next →: [Vaccinations and why, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/29-vaccinations-and-why/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/29-vaccinations-and-why/)