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title: Antibiotics kill bacteria but not viruses, such as the viruses that… — Medicines, doctors and hospitals · tree and pragmatics
description: Antibiotics kill bacteria but not viruses, such as the viruses that cause colds. Who acts: Antibiotics, viruses. 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 8

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Antibiotics kill bacteria but not viruses, such as the viruses that cause colds.

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**Who acts:** Antibiotics, viruses · **What happens:** kill, cause · **To what, where:** bacteria, colds

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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 (Antibiotics, viruses), 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:8
# text = Antibiotics kill bacteria but not viruses, such as the viruses that cause colds.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1
1	Antibiotics	antibiotic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kill	kill	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	viruses	virus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	11	case	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	viruses	virus	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	cause	cause	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	colds	cold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **kill** | present | Antibiotics | bacteria but viruses |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bacteria=Theme |
| 2 | **cause** | present | the viruses | colds |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition cold=Patient |

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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:8`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×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/).

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