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title: In 1796 Edward Jenner noticed that milkmaids who caught mild cowpox… — Vaccinations and why · tree and pragmatics
description: In 1796 Edward Jenner noticed that milkmaids who caught mild cowpox didn't get deadly smallpox, and he made the first vaccine from it; nearly two hundred years later vaccination wiped smallpox off the Earth. Who acts: Edward Jenner, milkmaids, Jenner, vaccination. A sentence of the lesson «Vaccinati
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# Vaccinations and why, sentence 3

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In 1796 Edward Jenner noticed that milkmaids who caught mild cowpox didn't get deadly smallpox, and he made the first vaccine from it; nearly two hundred years later vaccination wiped smallpox off the Earth.

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**Who acts:** Edward Jenner, milkmaids, Jenner, vaccination · **What happens:** notice, catch, not get, make, wipe off · **To what, where:** 1796, mild cowpox, deadly smallpox, first vaccine, smallpox · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Edward Jenner, milkmaids, Jenner, 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:3
# text = In 1796 Edward Jenner noticed that milkmaids who caught mild cowpox didn't get deadly smallpox, and he made the first vaccine from it; nearly two hundred years later vaccination wiped smallpox off the Earth.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	1796	1796	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	_
3	Edward	Edward	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Jenner	Jenner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:mark
7	milkmaids	milkmaid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	mild	mild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	cowpox	cowpox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
15	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	smallpox	smallpox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	23	amod	_	_
23	vaccine	vaccine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	compound	_	_
29	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	32	advmod	_	_
32	vaccination	vaccination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	wiped	wipe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
34	smallpox	smallpox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	off	off	ADP	IN	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **notice** | past | Edward Jenner |  |  | 1796 |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **catch** | past | milkmaids | mild cowpox |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cowpox=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **get** | past · do-support | milkmaids | deadly smallpox |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smallpox=Stimulus |
| 4 | **make** | past | Jenner | the first vaccine |  | smallpox |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent vaccine=Product from it=Material |
| 5 | **wipe off** | past | vaccination | smallpox |  |  |  | the Earth *obl* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent smallpox=Source |

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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 ×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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