--- title: A sneeze shoots droplets that can travel a few metres, and sneezing… — Staying healthy: germs, vaccines, sleep, food an… · tree and pragmatics description: A sneeze shoots droplets that can travel a few metres, and sneezing into the elbow keeps germs off the hands that touch pencils, door handles and friends. Who acts: sneeze, droplets, sneezing, hands. A sentence of the lesson «Staying healthy: germs, vaccines, sleep, food and exercise» of the biology --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/72-staying-healthy/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Staying healthy: germs, vaccines, slee…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/72-staying-healthy/) / 5 # Staying healthy: germs, vaccines, sleep, food and exercise, sentence 5 A sneeze shoots droplets that can travel a few metres, and sneezing into the elbow keeps germs off the hands that touch pencils, door handles and friends. **Who acts:** sneeze, droplets, sneezing, hands · **What happens:** shoot, travel, sneeze, keep, touch · **To what, where:** droplets, few metres, elbow, germs, pencils This is a sentence of the lesson «Staying healthy: germs, vaccines, sleep, food and exercise» 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 (sneeze, droplets, sneezing, hands), 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:5 # text = A sneeze shoots droplets that can travel a few metres, and sneezing into the elbow keeps germs off the hands that touch pencils, door handles and friends. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sneeze sneeze NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 shoots shoot VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 droplets droplet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 6 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 travel travel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:obj 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 13 sneezing sneeze VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 csubj _ _ 14 into into ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 elbow elbow NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 off off ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 touch touch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 pencils pencil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 handles handle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shoot** | present | a sneeze | droplets | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent droplet=Theme | | 2 | **travel** | can | droplets | a few metres | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **sneeze** | gerund | | | | the elbow | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **keep** | present | sneezing | germs | | | | off the hands | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme | | 5 | **touch** | present | the hands | pencils and door handles and friends | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pencil=Co-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:072-staying-healthy.lesson:5`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Staying healthy: germs, vaccines, slee…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/72-staying-healthy/4/) - next →: [Staying healthy: germs, vaccines, slee…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/72-staying-healthy/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/72-staying-healthy/)