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title: Germs include bacteria, viruses and fungi; most bacteria are harmles… — Germs, the immune system and hand-washing · tree and pragmatics
description: Germs include bacteria, viruses and fungi; most bacteria are harmless or helpful, and your gut holds trillions of useful ones. Who acts: Germs, most bacteria, gut. A sentence of the lesson «Germs, the immune system and hand-washing» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency
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# Germs, the immune system and hand-washing, sentence 5

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Germs include bacteria, viruses and fungi; most bacteria are harmless or helpful, and your gut holds trillions of useful ones.

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**Who acts:** Germs, most bacteria, gut · **What happens:** include, be, hold · **To what, where:** bacteria, trillions

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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 (Germs, most bacteria, gut), 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:5
# text = Germs include bacteria, viruses and fungi; most bacteria are harmless or helpful, and your gut holds trillions of useful ones.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	include	include	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	viruses	virus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:appos
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	fungi	fungus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	harmless	harmless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	helpful	helpful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	gut	gut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	trillions	trillion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **include** | present | Germs | bacteria and viruses and fungi |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bacterium=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | most bacteria |  |  |  |  | harmless *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | most bacteria *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hold** | present | your gut | trillions of useful ones |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trillion=Theme |

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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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**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:5`.

**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 ×1, R8-pos-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/).

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