--- title: Doctors found that washing hands saves lives; Ignaz Semmelweis showe… — Germs, hygiene and vaccines · tree and pragmatics description: Doctors found that washing hands saves lives; Ignaz Semmelweis showed it in a hospital in the 1840s, where fewer mothers died of infection once doctors washed their hands. Who acts: Doctors, washing, Ignaz, fewer mothers. A sentence of the lesson «Germs, hygiene and vaccines» of the world course of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/37-germs-hygiene-vaccines/21/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Germs, hygiene and vaccines](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/37-germs-hygiene-vaccines/) / 21 # Germs, hygiene and vaccines, sentence 21 Doctors found that washing hands saves lives; Ignaz Semmelweis showed it in a hospital in the 1840s, where fewer mothers died of infection once doctors washed their hands. **Who acts:** Doctors, washing, Ignaz, fewer mothers · **What happens:** find, wash, save, show, die · **To what, where:** hands, lives, bacteria · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Doctors, washing, Ignaz, fewer mothers), 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:21 # text = Doctors found that washing hands saves lives; Ignaz Semmelweis showed it in a hospital in the 1840s, where fewer mothers died of infection once doctors washed their hands. # 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): no change 1 Doctors doctor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 washing wash VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 csubj _ _ 5 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 6 saves save VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 7 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 Ignaz Ignaz PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 10 Semmelweis Semmelweis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ _ 11 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 1840s 1840 NOUN NNS Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card 15 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 23 advmod _ _ 21 fewer few ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 amod _ _ 22 mothers mother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 23 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 infection infection NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 once once SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 doctors doctor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 washed wash VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 29 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past | Doctors | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 2 | **wash** | gerund | | hands | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | | 3 | **save** | present | washing | lives | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | | 4 | **show** | past | Ignaz | bacteria | | | | in a hospital in the 1840s | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Patient in hospital=Topic | | 5 | **die** | past | fewer mothers | | | | | of infection | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of infection=Causer | | 6 | **wash** | past | doctors | Doctors's hands | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | 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:world:037-germs-hygiene-vaccines.lesson:21`. **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, hygiene and vaccines, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/37-germs-hygiene-vaccines/20/) - next →: [Sleep, exercise and growing up, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/38-sleep-exercise-growing/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/37-germs-hygiene-vaccines/)