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title: Wash your hands after touching any frog or toad, and wet your hands… — Frogs and toads near home: spawn, croaking choru… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wash your hands after touching any frog or toad, and wet your hands first to protect its skin. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Frogs and toads near home: spawn, croaking choruses, toad crossings and the fire-bellied toad» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tr
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# Frogs and toads near home: spawn, croaking choruses, toad crossings and the fire-bellied toad, sentence 12

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Wash your hands after touching any frog or toad, and wet your hands first to protect its skin.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wash, touch, wet, protect · **To what, where:** hands, frog, skin

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Frogs and toads near home: spawn, croaking choruses, toad crossings and the fire-bellied toad» of the biology 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 (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:309-frogs-and-toads-near-home-spawn-croaking-choruses-toad-crossings-and-the-fire-bellied-toad.lesson:12
# text = Wash your hands after touching any frog or toad, and wet your hands first to protect its skin.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 309-frogs-and-toads-near-home-spawn-croaking-choruses-toad-crossings-and-the-fire-bellied-toad.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	Wash	wash	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	advcl	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	wet	wet	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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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 | **touch** | gerund | you *not said here* | any frog or toad |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme frog=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **wet** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your hands |  |  |  | first *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 4 | **protect** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | virus's skin |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Beneficiary |

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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.

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**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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