Germs, the immune system and hand-washing, sentence 4

Most germs reach your mouth on your own hands, which is why twenty seconds with soap, about two Happy Birthdays, is one of the most powerful medicines there is.

Who acts: Most germs, twenty seconds, powerful medicines · What happens: reach, be · To what, where: mouth, own hands, one

This is a sentence of the lesson «Germs, the immune system and hand-washing» of the medicine 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 (Most germs, twenty seconds, powerful medicines), 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 germs	amod
2	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 reach	nsubj
3	reach	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mouth	nmod:poss
5	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reach	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 hands	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hands	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hands	amod
9	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 reach	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 why	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 why	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 why	cop
13	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 reach	parataxis
14	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 seconds	nummod
15	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 one	nsubj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 soap	case
17	soap	soap	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seconds	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Birthdays	punct
19	about	about	ADV	_	20 two	advmod
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 Birthdays	nummod
21	Happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Birthdays	amod
22	Birthdays	birthday	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 seconds	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 one	punct
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 one	cop
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 reach	parataxis
26	of	of	ADP	_	30 medicines	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 medicines	det
28	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	29 powerful	advmod
29	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 medicines	amod
30	medicines	medicine	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 one	nmod
31	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	32 is	expl
32	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 medicines	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reach	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: changed polarity=pos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	present	Most germs	your mouth	your own hands		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme
2	is	present				why property	tree rules
3	is a	present	twenty seconds with soap and two Happy Birthdays	one		of the powerful medicines	tree rules
4	be	present	the powerful medicines not said here		there		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:medicine:030-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing.lesson:4.

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): no change. 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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