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title: On a farm you touch animals only with permission and wash your hands… — The lunchroom and school trips · tree and pragmatics
description: On a farm you touch animals only with permission and wash your hands well afterwards, because they can carry germs such as E. coli. Who acts: you, hands. A sentence of the lesson «The lunchroom and school trips» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The lunchroom and school trips, sentence 14

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On a farm you touch animals only with permission and wash your hands well afterwards, because they can carry germs such as E. coli.

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**Who acts:** you, hands · **What happens:** touch, wash, carry · **To what, where:** animals, hands, germs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The lunchroom and school trips» 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, hands), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:258-lunchroom-and-school-trips.lesson:14
# text = On a farm you touch animals only with permission and wash your hands well afterwards, because they can carry germs such as E. coli.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 258-lunchroom-and-school-trips.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 ×2
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	touch	touch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
15	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
21	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	25	case	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	22	fixed	_	_
24	E.	E.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	coli	coli	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **touch** | present | you | animals |  |  |  | with permission; on a farm | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent animal=Experiencer on farm=Theme with permission=Instrument |
| 2 | **wash** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your hands |  |  |  | afterwards, well *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 3 | **carry** | can | hands *= hand* | germs |  |  |  | such E. coli | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=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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**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:258-lunchroom-and-school-trips.lesson:14`.

**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 ×2. **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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