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title: Brush your tongue gently too, because germs on the tongue cause bad… — Teeth, nails, baths and toilets · tree and pragmatics
description: Brush your tongue gently too, because germs on the tongue cause bad breath. Who acts: you, germs. A sentence of the lesson «Teeth, nails, baths and toilets» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Teeth, nails, baths and toilets, sentence 7

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Brush your tongue gently too, because germs on the tongue cause bad breath.

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**Who acts:** you, germs · **What happens:** brush, cause · **To what, where:** tongue, bad breath

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Teeth, nails, baths and toilets» 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 (you, germs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets.lesson:7
# text = Brush your tongue gently too, because germs on the tongue cause bad breath.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets.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	Brush	brush	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:advmod
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:case
8	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	cause	cause	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
13	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **brush** | imperative | you *not said here* | your tongue |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme |
| 2 | **cause** | present | germs on the tongue | bad breath |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition breath=Patient |

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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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**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:everyday:208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets.lesson:7`.

**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.

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

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