--- title: Teeth, nails, baths and toilets — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Teeth, nails, baths and toilets», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Good habits look after the body: brushing well, cleaning between teeth with floss, short clean nails and a clean toilet for the next pers --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / Teeth, nails, baths and toilets # Teeth, nails, baths and toilets Lesson 208 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 20 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets/0/) — Good habits look after the body: brushing well, cleaning between teeth with floss, short clean nails and a clean toilet for the next person. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets/1/) — After brushing you spit out the toothpaste but do not rinse with lots of water straight away, because the fluoride left on the teeth keeps protecting them for longer. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets/2/) — A small child can drown in a few centimetres of water in seconds, so a little brother or sister is never left alone in the bath: you call an adult. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets/3/) — A boy in Texas has a numbing injection at the dentist; his lip feels fat and strange for a few hours, so he takes care not to bite or chew it, because he could hurt it without feeling any pain. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets/4/) — Fingernails are cut following their curve, toenails straight across, so the corners do not grow into the skin. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets/5/) — After brushing, spit out the toothpaste but do not rinse your mouth with water straight away. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets/6/) — Fluoride left on the teeth keeps protecting them for longer. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets/7/) — Brush your tongue gently too, because germs on the tongue cause bad breath. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets/8/) — Food stuck between teeth is removed with floss, never with a fork, pin or other sharp object, which can cut gums and chip teeth. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets/9/) — After a numbing injection, the lip and cheek feel fat and strange for a few hours, and you must not bite or chew them. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets/10/) — A small child must never be left alone in a bath, because small children can drown in a few centimetres of water in seconds. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets/11/) — Short showers of about five minutes save water and energy. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets/12/) — Nails are kept short and clean, with dirt scrubbed out from under them, because germs collect there. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets/13/) — Fingernails are cut following their curve and toenails straight across, with nail clippers or by an adult. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets/15/) — Biting nails puts germs from under them into the mouth, and torn, bleeding skin round a nail can get infected, so tell a grown-up if it bleeds. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets/16/) — Safety glasses are worn when you are told to during experiments, because chemicals can hurt eyes for life. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets/17/) — If you miss the toilet or leave it messy, you clean it up or tell an adult, so the next person finds it clean. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets/18/) — A girl in New Zealand hardly brushed her teeth and drank fizzy drinks every day; at nine she needed several fillings and one tooth taken out. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets/20/) — Tooth decay is one of the most common illnesses in children, and bad decay can cause toothache, infection and lost teeth. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets/21/) — Washing hands with soap after the toilet stops many stomach bugs that make whole classes ill. - ← previous: [Kindness to animals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/207-kindness-to-animals/) - next →: [Sharing, sleep and safe food](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/209-sharing-sleep-and-safe-food/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)