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title: Farm animals can carry germs like E. coli on their fur and in their… — The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Farm animals can carry germs like E. coli on their fur and in their droppings without being ill, so soap and water are best, and you should not eat in the petting area. Who acts: Farm animals, soap, you. A sentence of the lesson «The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands» of th
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# The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits and washing hands, sentence 15

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Farm animals can carry germs like E. coli on their fur and in their droppings without being ill, so soap and water are best, and you should not eat in the petting area.

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**Who acts:** Farm animals, soap, you · **What happens:** carry, be, not eat · **To what, where:** germs, fur, petting area

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The petting farm: goats, sheep, pigs, rabbits 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 (Farm animals, soap, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:096-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-and-washing-hands.lesson:15
# text = Farm animals can carry germs like E. coli on their fur and in their droppings without being ill, so soap and water are best, and you should not eat in the petting area.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 096-the-petting-farm-goats-sheep-pigs-rabbits-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): no change
1	Farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	E.	E.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	coli	coli	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	fur	fur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	droppings	dropping	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
16	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	cop	_	_
18	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
21	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	parataxis	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	petting	petting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | can | Farm animals | germs |  | animals's fur and animals's droppings |  | like E. coli | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | gerund | Farm animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | soap and water |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **eat** | should | you |  |  | the petting area |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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

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