The dentist and washing your hands, sentence 12
Pets can carry germs that make people ill, so hands are washed after touching them or their cages.
Who acts: Pets, germs · What happens: carry, make, wash, touch · To what, where: germs, people, hands
This is a sentence of the lesson «The dentist and washing your hands» of the everyday 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 (Pets, germs), 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 | Pets | pet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 carry | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 carry | aux |
| 3 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 carry | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 make | nsubj |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 germs | acl:relcl |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 make | obj |
| 8 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 make | xcomp |
| 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 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 15 touching | mark |
| 15 | touching | touch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 washed | advcl |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 touching | obj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 cages | cc |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 cages | nmod:poss |
| 19 | cages | cage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 them | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | can | Pets | germs | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | present | germs | people | ill property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset people=Product | |||
| 3 | wash | present · passive | hands | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | touch | gerund | Germs = germ | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-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:everyday:075-the-dentist-and-washing-hands.lesson:12.
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, R8-pos-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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