Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light and washing hands, sentence 6

Healthy reptiles often carry salmonella germs, so everyone washes their hands with soap after holding them, and small children under five should not handle them.

Who acts: Healthy reptiles, everyone, soap, small children · What happens: carry, wash, hold, not handle · To what, where: salmonella germs, hands, reptiles

This is a sentence of the lesson «Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light and washing hands» of the biology 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 (Healthy reptiles, everyone, soap, small children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 reptiles	amod
2	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carry	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 carry	advmod
4	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	salmonella	salmonella	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 germs	compound
6	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carry	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 washes	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 washes	advmod
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 washes	nsubj
10	washes	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 carry	parataxis
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hands	nmod:poss
12	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 washes	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 soap	case
14	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 washes	obl
15	after	after	SCONJ	_	16 holding	mark
16	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 soap	acl
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 holding	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 handle	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 children	cc
20	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 children	amod
21	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 handle	nsubj
22	under	under	ADP	_	23 five	case
23	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 children	nmod
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 handle	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 handle	advmod
26	handle	handle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 washes	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 handle	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 carry	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	carry	present	Healthy reptiles	salmonella germs	often property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme
2	wash	present	everyone	reptiles's hands	with soap	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with soap=Instrument
3	hold	gerund	soap not said here	reptiles = reptile		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	not handle	should	small children under five	reptiles = reptile		vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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, 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:biology:329-tortoises-lizards-and-geckos-as-pets-heat-light-and-washing-hands.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): R6-punct-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.

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