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title: Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, the first widely used antib… — Medicines, doctors and hospitals · tree and pragmatics
description: Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, the first widely used antibiotic, in 1928. Who acts: Alexander. A sentence of the lesson «Medicines, doctors and hospitals» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Medicines, doctors and hospitals, sentence 17

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Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, the first widely used antibiotic, in 1928.

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**Who acts:** Alexander · **What happens:** discover, use · **To what, where:** penicillin, 1928

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Medicines, doctors and hospitals» 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 (Alexander), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:094-medicines-doctors-hospitals.lesson:17
# text = Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, the first widely used antibiotic, in 1928.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 094-medicines-doctors-hospitals.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	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Fleming	Fleming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	discovered	discover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	penicillin	penicillin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	amod	_	_
8	widely	widely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	antibiotic	antibiotic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	1928	1928	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **discover** | past | Alexander | penicillin |  | 1928 |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penicillin=Topic |
| 2 | **use** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | widely *property* | vn eat-39.1 «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:world:094-medicines-doctors-hospitals.lesson:17`.

**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/).

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