--- title: In the UK babies have their first vaccines at 8 weeks, against disea… — Vaccinations and why · tree and pragmatics description: In the UK babies have their first vaccines at 8 weeks, against diseases such as whooping cough, because babies are most at risk from them, and their immune systems easily handle several vaccines at once. Who acts: babies, immune systems. A sentence of the lesson «Vaccinations and why» of the medicin --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Vaccinations and why, sentence 7 In the UK babies have their first vaccines at 8 weeks, against diseases such as whooping cough, because babies are most at risk from them, and their immune systems easily handle several vaccines at once. **Who acts:** babies, immune systems · **What happens:** have, be, handle · **To what, where:** first vaccines, UK, risk, several vaccines 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 (babies, immune systems), 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:7 # text = In the UK babies have their first vaccines at 8 weeks, against diseases such as whooping cough, because babies are most at risk from them, and their immune systems easily handle several vaccines at once. # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 8 amod _ _ 8 vaccines vaccine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 against against ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 diseases disease NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 15 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ 17 mark _ _ 16 as as ADP IN _ 15 fixed _ _ 17 whooping whoop NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 18 cough cough NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obj 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 because because SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 21 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 23 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 25 advmod _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 risk risk NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 advcl _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 31 immune immune ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 systems system NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 33 easily easily ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 handle handle VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 35 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 vaccines vaccine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 37 at at ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 34 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | babies | babies's first vaccines | | the UK | week | against diseases whooping cough | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vaccine=Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | babies | | | risk | | from Vaccines *= vaccine* | tree rules | | 3 | **handle** | present | Vaccines's immune systems | several vaccines | | | | easily *property* | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vaccine=Theme | 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:7`. **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 ×3, R6-punct-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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/29-vaccinations-and-why/6/) - next →: [Vaccinations and why, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/29-vaccinations-and-why/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/29-vaccinations-and-why/)