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title: No single food or drink can boost the immune system; sleep, a good d… — Germs, the immune system and hand-washing · tree and pragmatics
description: No single food or drink can boost the immune system; sleep, a good diet and exercise keep it working well. Who acts: single food, sleep, system. A sentence of the lesson «Germs, the immune system and hand-washing» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Germs, the immune system and hand-washing, sentence 8

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No single food or drink can boost the immune system; sleep, a good diet and exercise keep it working well.

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**Who acts:** single food, sleep, system · **What happens:** boost, keep, work · **To what, where:** immune system, system

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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 (single food, sleep, system), 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:8
# text = No single food or drink can boost the immune system; sleep, a good diet and exercise keep it working well.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
2	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	boost	boost	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	immune	immune	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
10	system	system	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	diet	diet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	exercise	exercise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:conj
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	xcomp	_	_
22	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **boost** | can | no single food or drink | the immune system |  |  |  |  | vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent system=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | infinitive | sleep and a good diet and exercise | system |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** | gerund | system *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:8`.

**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 ×2, R7-rel-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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