--- title: Many reptiles carry salmonella germs without being ill, so hands are… — Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, lig… · tree and pragmatics description: Many reptiles carry salmonella germs without being ill, so hands are washed with soap after touching them, and children under five should not handle reptiles. Who acts: Many reptiles, children. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many reptiles, 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:9 # text = Many reptiles carry salmonella germs without being ill, so hands are washed with soap after touching them, and children under five should not handle reptiles. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 reptiles reptile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 salmonella salmonella NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 without without SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 cop _ _ 8 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 11 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 washed wash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 14 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 soap soap NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 after after SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 touching touch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 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 13 conj _ _ 27 reptiles reptile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | present | Many reptiles | salmonella germs | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme | | 2 | **is** | gerund | Many reptiles *not said here* | | | | | ill *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **wash** | present · passive | | hands | | | | with soap | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with soap=Instrument | | 4 | **touch** | gerund | | reptiles *= reptile* | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme | | 5 | **not** **handle** | should | children under five | reptiles | | | | | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reptile=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](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: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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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. 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