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title: Most bacteria are harmless or even helpful, but some bacteria and vi… — Germs, hygiene and vaccines · tree and pragmatics
description: Most bacteria are harmless or even helpful, but some bacteria and viruses get into the body and make us ill. Who acts: Most bacteria, bacteria. A sentence of the lesson «Germs, hygiene and vaccines» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Germs, hygiene and vaccines, sentence 1

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Most bacteria are harmless or even helpful, but some bacteria and viruses get into the body and make us ill.

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**Who acts:** Most bacteria, bacteria · **What happens:** be, get, make · **To what, where:** body, us

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Germs, hygiene and vaccines» of the world 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 (Most bacteria, bacteria), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:037-germs-hygiene-vaccines.lesson:1
# text = Most bacteria are harmless or even helpful, but some bacteria and viruses get into the body and make us ill.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 037-germs-hygiene-vaccines.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 ×3
1	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	2	amod	_	_
2	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	harmless	harmless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	even	even	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	helpful	helpful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	viruses	virus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
20	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present | Most bacteria |  |  |  |  | harmless *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Most bacteria *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **get** | present | some bacteria and viruses |  |  | the body |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into body=Destination |
| 4 | **make** | present | some bacteria and viruses *not said here* | us |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset we=Product |

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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:world:037-germs-hygiene-vaccines.lesson:1`.

**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 ×3. **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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