--- title: Contact with nature and many kinds of microbes may help a child's im… — Germs, the immune system and hand-washing · tree and pragmatics description: Contact with nature and many kinds of microbes may help a child's immune system develop, though scientists are still studying the details. Who acts: Contact, immune system, scientists. A sentence of the lesson «Germs, the immune system and hand-washing» of the medicine course of Mova's primary schoo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/30-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing/17/) [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/) / [Germs, the immune system and hand-wash…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/30-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing/) / 17 # Germs, the immune system and hand-washing, sentence 17 Contact with nature and many kinds of microbes may help a child's immune system develop, though scientists are still studying the details. **Who acts:** Contact, immune system, scientists · **What happens:** help, develop, study · **To what, where:** immune system, details This is a sentence of the lesson «Germs, the immune system and hand-washing» 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 (Contact, immune system, scientists), 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:17 # text = Contact with nature and many kinds of microbes may help a child's immune system develop, though scientists are still studying the details. # 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): no change 1 Contact contact NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 2 with with ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 microbes microbe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 9 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ _ 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 immune immune ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 system system NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 16 develop develop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 though though SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 19 scientists scientist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 still still ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 studying study VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 details detail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **help** | may | Contact with nature and many kinds of microbes | a child's immune system | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent system=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 2 | **develop** | infinitive | a child's immune system *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **study** | present · progressive | scientists | the details | | | still | | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent detail=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:030-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing.lesson:17`. **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): no change. **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: [Germs, the immune system and hand-wash…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/30-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing/16/) - next →: [Why we sleep when ill, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/31-why-we-sleep-when-ill/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/30-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing/)