--- title: A vaccine teaches the body this lesson safely: it shows the body a w… — Germs, hygiene and vaccines · tree and pragmatics description: A vaccine teaches the body this lesson safely: it shows the body a weakened, killed or harmless part of a germ, so the body makes antibodies without getting really ill. Who acts: vaccine, body. A sentence of the lesson «Germs, hygiene and vaccines» of the world course of Mova's primary school with i --- [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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Germs, hygiene and vaccines, sentence 6 A vaccine teaches the body this lesson safely: it shows the body a weakened, killed or harmless part of a germ, so the body makes antibodies without getting really ill. **Who acts:** vaccine, body · **What happens:** teach, show, weaken, kill, make, get · **To what, where:** lesson, body, weakened harmless part, antibodies 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 (vaccine, body), 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:6 # text = A vaccine teaches the body this lesson safely: it shows the body a weakened, killed or harmless part of a germ, so the body makes antibodies without getting really 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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 vaccine vaccine NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 teaches teach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 iobj _ _ 6 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 det _ _ 7 lesson lesson NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 safely safely ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 iobj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 15 weakened weaken VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 amod _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 18 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 harmless harmless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 germ germ NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 29 antibodies antibody NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 30 without without SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 31 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 28 advcl _ _ 32 really really ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | a vaccine | this lesson | the body | | | safely *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent body=Recipient lesson=Topic | | 2 | **show** | present | body | a weakened harmless part of a germ | the body | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent body=Recipient part=Topic | | 3 | **weaken** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **kill** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **make** | present | the body | antibodies | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset antibody=Product | | 6 | **get** | gerund | the body *not said here* | | | | | ill *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:6`. **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. **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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/37-germs-hygiene-vaccines/5/) - next →: [Germs, hygiene and vaccines, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/37-germs-hygiene-vaccines/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/37-germs-hygiene-vaccines/)