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title: Healthy reptiles often carry salmonella germs, so everyone washes th… — Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, lig… · tree and pragmatics
description: Healthy reptiles often carry salmonella germs, so everyone washes their hands with soap after holding them, and small children under five should not handle them. Who acts: Healthy reptiles, everyone, soap, small children. A sentence of the lesson «Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light a
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# Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light and washing hands, sentence 6

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Healthy reptiles often carry salmonella germs, so everyone washes their hands with soap after holding them, and small children under five should not handle them.

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**Who acts:** Healthy reptiles, everyone, soap, small children · **What happens:** carry, wash, hold, not handle · **To what, where:** salmonella germs, hands, reptiles

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light and washing hands» 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 (Healthy reptiles, everyone, soap, small children), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:329-tortoises-lizards-and-geckos-as-pets-heat-light-and-washing-hands.lesson:6
# text = Healthy reptiles often carry salmonella germs, so everyone washes their hands with soap after holding them, and small children under five should not handle them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 329-tortoises-lizards-and-geckos-as-pets-heat-light-and-washing-hands.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Healthy	healthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	often	often	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	salmonella	salmonella	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	10	nsubj	_	_
10	washes	wash	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
22	under	under	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nmod	_	_
24	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	handle	handle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | present | Healthy reptiles | salmonella germs |  |  |  | often *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme |
| 2 | **wash** | present | everyone | reptiles's hands |  |  |  | with soap | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with soap=Instrument |
| 3 | **hold** | gerund | soap *not said here* | reptiles *= reptile* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **handle** | should | small children under five | reptiles *= reptile* |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:329-tortoises-lizards-and-geckos-as-pets-heat-light-and-washing-hands.lesson:6`.

**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. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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