Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light and washing hands, sentence 9

Many reptiles carry salmonella germs without being ill, so hands are washed with soap after touching them, and children under five should not handle reptiles.

Who acts: Many reptiles, children · What happens: carry, be, wash, touch, 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 (Many reptiles, 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 reptiles	amod
2	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carry	nsubj
3	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	salmonella	salmonella	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 germs	compound
5	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carry	obj
6	without	without	SCONJ	_	8 ill	mark
7	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 ill	cop
8	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 carry	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 washed	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 washed	advmod
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 washed	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 washed	aux:pass
13	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 carry	parataxis
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 soap	case
15	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 washed	obl
16	after	after	SCONJ	_	17 touching	mark
17	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 washed	advcl
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 touching	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 handle	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 handle	cc
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	13 washed	conj
27	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 handle	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 carry	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	carry	present	Many reptiles	salmonella germs		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme
2	is	gerund	Many reptiles not said here		ill property	tree rules
3	wash	present · passive		hands	with soap	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with soap=Instrument
4	touch	gerund		reptiles = reptile		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme
5	not handle	should	children under five	reptiles		vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reptile=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:9.

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, 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.

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