The dentist and washing your hands, sentence 2

Germs are too small to see, and our hands carry them everywhere: onto food, into our mouths and onto things other people touch, so washing hands with soap is one of the best ways to stay well.

Who acts: Germs, hands, other people · What happens: be, see, carry, touch, wash, stay · To what, where: Germs, food, things, hands, one

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 (Germs, hands, other people), 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	Germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 small	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 small	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 small	advmod
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 small	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 carry	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 carry	cc
9	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hands	nmod:poss
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 carry	nsubj
11	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 small	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 carry	obj
13	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 carry	advmod
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 food	punct
15	onto	onto	ADP	_	16 food	case
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carry	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 mouths	punct
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 mouths	case
19	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mouths	nmod:poss
20	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 carry	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 things	cc
22	onto	onto	ADP	_	23 things	case
23	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 mouths	conj
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 people	amod
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 touch	nsubj
26	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 things	acl:relcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 one	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	29 washing	advmod
29	washing	wash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 one	nsubj
30	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 washing	obj
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 soap	case
32	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 washing	obl
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 one	cop
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 small	parataxis
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 ways	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 ways	det
37	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	38 ways	amod
38	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 one	nmod
39	to	to	PART	_	40 stay	mark
40	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 ways	acl
41	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	40 stay	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 small	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Germs			small property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	Germs not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	carry	present	our hands	Germs = germ	food	into our mouths and things; everywhere property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	touch	present	other people	things not said here			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Co-Theme
5	wash	gerund		hands		with soap	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with soap=Instrument
6	is a	present		one		of the best ways	tree rules
7	stay	to-infinitive				well property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:2.

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 ×2. 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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