--- title: The body fights back: white blood cells attack the germs and make an… — Germs, hygiene and vaccines · tree and pragmatics description: The body fights back: white blood cells attack the germs and make antibodies that fit one kind of germ like a key fits a lock. Who acts: body, white blood cells, antibodies, key. A sentence of the lesson «Germs, hygiene and vaccines» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency t --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # Germs, hygiene and vaccines, sentence 4 The body fights back: white blood cells attack the germs and make antibodies that fit one kind of germ like a key fits a lock. **Who acts:** body, white blood cells, antibodies, key · **What happens:** fight back, attack, make, fit · **To what, where:** germs, antibodies, one kind, lock 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 (body, white blood cells, antibodies, key), 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:4 # text = The body fights back: white blood cells attack the germs and make antibodies that fit one kind of germ like a key fits a lock. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 fights fight VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 4 back back ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 6 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 7 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 attack attack VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 14 antibodies antibody NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 fit fit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 18 nummod _ _ 18 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 germ germ NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 like like SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 key key NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 fits fit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 lock lock NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fight back** | present | the body | | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **attack** | present | white blood cells | the germs | | | | | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Patient | | 3 | **make** | present | white blood cells *not said here* | antibodies | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset antibody=Product | | 4 | **fit** | present | antibodies | one kind of germ | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient | | 5 | **fit** | present | a key | a lock | | | | | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=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:4`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/37-germs-hygiene-vaccines/3/) - next →: [Germs, hygiene and vaccines, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/37-germs-hygiene-vaccines/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/37-germs-hygiene-vaccines/)