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title: Why wash your hands after playing where dogs have been? — Bites, stings and things you find on t… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why wash your hands after playing where dogs have been? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 238 «Bites, stings and things you find on the ground» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Test 8 · ★ · Bites, stings and things you find on the ground

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Why wash your hands after playing where dogs have been?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, dogs · **What happens:** wash, play, be · **To what, where:** hands

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 238 «Bites, stings and things you find on the ground» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/238-bites-and-things-you-find/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:238-bites-and-things-you-find:t8:1
# text = Why wash your hands after playing where dogs have been?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	wash	wash	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
8	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	been	be	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash** | imperative | you *not said here* | your hands |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 2 | **play** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **be** | present · perfect | dogs |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Animal poo can carry worms and germs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:238-bites-and-things-you-find:t8:o1:1
# text = Animal poo can carry worms and germs
1	Animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	poo	poo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | can | Animal poo | worms and germs |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Dogs drop poisonous hairs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:238-bites-and-things-you-find:t8:o2:1
# text = Dogs drop poisonous hairs
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	drop	drop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hairs	hair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | present | Dogs | poisonous hairs |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Dogs leave pollen on the grass

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:238-bites-and-things-you-find:t8:o3:1
# text = Dogs leave pollen on the grass
1	Dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	pollen	pollen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | present | Dogs | pollen |  | the grass |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pollen=Theme on grass=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Grass makes your hands sticky

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:238-bites-and-things-you-find:t8:o4:1
# text = Grass makes your hands sticky
1	Grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	sticky	sticky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Grass | your hands |  |  |  | sticky *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hand=Product |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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