--- title: Lymph nodes, often called glands, are part of the immune system and… — Germs, the immune system and hand-washing · tree and pragmatics description: Lymph nodes, often called glands, are part of the immune system and swell while fighting an infection, such as in the neck during a cold. Who acts: Lymph nodes. 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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 (Lymph nodes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:030-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing.lesson:13 # text = Lymph nodes, often called glands, are part of the immune system and swell while fighting an infection, such as in the neck during a cold. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 030-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Lymph lymph NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 nodes node NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 often often ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 6 glands gland NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 appos _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 8 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 9 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 immune immune NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 system system NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 swell swell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 16 while while SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 fighting fight VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 18 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 infection infection NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 25 case _ _ 22 as as ADP IN _ 21 fixed _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 26 during during ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 cold cold NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | participle | | glands *not said here* | | | | often *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | Lymph nodes | part | | | | of the immune system | tree rules | | 3 | **swell** | present | Lymph nodes *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **fight** | gerund | Lymph nodes *not said here* | a infection and the neck | | | during a cold | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent infection=Co-Agent | 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:030-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing.lesson:13`. **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): 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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