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title: Farm animals carry germs such as E. coli that can make children very… — Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo · tree and pragmatics
description: Farm animals carry germs such as E. coli that can make children very ill, so you wash hands with soap and water after touching them. Who acts: Farm animals, E. coli, you. A sentence of the lesson «Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its 
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# Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo, sentence 19

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Farm animals carry germs such as E. coli that can make children very ill, so you wash hands with soap and water after touching them.

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**Who acts:** Farm animals, E. coli, you · **What happens:** carry, make, wash, touch · **To what, where:** germs, children, hands, Animals

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo» of the everyday 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, E. coli, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo.lesson:19
# text = Farm animals carry germs such as E. coli that can make children very ill, so you wash hands with soap and water after touching them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo.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, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	8	case	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	E.	E.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	coli	coli	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	wash	wash	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
19	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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** | present | Farm animals | germs |  |  |  | such E. coli | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | can | E. coli | children |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset child=Product |
| 3 | **wash** | present | you | hands |  |  |  | with soap and water | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with soap=Instrument |
| 4 | **touch** | gerund | you *not said here* | Animals *= animal* |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-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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**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, 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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