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title: Wash fruit and vegetables before eating, because they may have dirt… — Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wash fruit and vegetables before eating, because they may have dirt or chemicals on them. Who acts: you, fruit. A sentence of the lesson «Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe food» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe food, sentence 15

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Wash fruit and vegetables before eating, because they may have dirt or chemicals on them.

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**Who acts:** you, fruit · **What happens:** wash, eat, have · **To what, where:** fruit, dirt

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, sleep and safe food» 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, fruit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food.lesson:15
# text = Wash fruit and vegetables before eating, because they may have dirt or chemicals on them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food.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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
2	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	vegetables	vegetable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	advcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
12	dirt	dirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	chemicals	chemical	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash** | imperative | you *not said here* | fruit and vegetables |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | may | fruit | dirt or chemicals |  |  |  | on chemicals *= chemical* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dirt=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:289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food.lesson:15`.

**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, R6-punct-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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