Germs, the immune system and hand-washing, sentence 9
Washing hands with soap and water for about 20 seconds, including thumbs, between fingers and under nails, removes germs that cause colds and tummy bugs.
Who acts: germs · What happens: wash, remove, cause · To what, where: hands, germs, colds
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 (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 | Washing | wash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 removes | advcl |
| 2 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Washing | obj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 soap | case |
| 4 | soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Washing | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 water | cc |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 soap | conj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 seconds | case |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 20 | advmod |
| 9 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 seconds | nummod |
| 10 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Washing | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thumbs | punct |
| 12 | including | include | ADP | _ | 13 thumbs | case |
| 13 | thumbs | thumb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 seconds | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fingers | punct |
| 15 | between | between | ADP | _ | 16 fingers | case |
| 16 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 seconds | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 nails | cc |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 nails | case |
| 19 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 seconds | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Washing | punct |
| 21 | removes | remove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 removes | obj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 cause | nsubj |
| 24 | cause | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 germs | acl:relcl |
| 25 | colds | cold | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 cause | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 bugs | cc |
| 27 | tummy | tummy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bugs | compound |
| 28 | bugs | bug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 colds | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 removes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash | gerund | hands | second | with soap and water | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with soap=Instrument | |||
| 2 | remove | present | germs | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cause | present | germs | colds and tummy bugs | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition cold=Patient |
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: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): 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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