--- title: Singing Happy Birthday twice while you wash with soap is not a silly… — Staying healthy: germs, vaccines, sleep, food an… · tree and pragmatics description: Singing Happy Birthday twice while you wash with soap is not a silly rule: it gives the soap about 20 seconds to grab the grease where germs hide and let the water rinse them away. Who acts: you, Singing, rule, germs. 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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 (you, Singing, rule, germs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:072-staying-healthy.lesson:1 # text = Singing Happy Birthday twice while you wash with soap is not a silly rule: it gives the soap about 20 seconds to grab the grease where germs hide and let the water rinse them away. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 072-staying-healthy.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Singing sing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 csubj _ _ 2 Happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Birthday birthday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 1 advmod _ _ 5 while while SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 wash wash VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 soap soap NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 gives give VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 soap soap NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obj 20 about about ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 22 nummod _ _ 22 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obl:unmarked 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 grab grab VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 grease grease NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 29 advmod _ _ 28 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=34:det 33 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 rinse rinse VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 35 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 away away ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: pos - teacher: changed polarity=pos | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | | Happy Birthday | | | | twice *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location birthday=Theme | | 2 | **wash** | present | you | | | | | with soap | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with soap=Instrument | | 3 | **not** **is a** | present | Singing | a silly rule | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **give** | present | rule | | the soap | | second | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soap=Theme | | 5 | **grab** | to-infinitive | rule *not said here* | the grease | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grease=Theme | | 6 | **hide** | present | germs | | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **let** | infinitive | rule *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **rinse away** | infinitive | the water | germs *= germ* | | | | away *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent they=Source | 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:072-staying-healthy.lesson:1`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [Staying healthy: germs, vaccines, slee…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/72-staying-healthy/0/) - next →: [Staying healthy: germs, vaccines, slee…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/72-staying-healthy/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/72-staying-healthy/)