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title: The simplest protection is washing your hands with soap and warm wat… — Wild birds, bats and germs from animals · tree and pragmatics
description: The simplest protection is washing your hands with soap and warm water for about 20 seconds after touching animals, their cages, food or poo, and before you eat. Who acts: simplest protection, you. A sentence of the lesson «Wild birds, bats and germs from animals» of the everyday course of Mova's pr
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# Wild birds, bats and germs from animals, sentence 1

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The simplest protection is washing your hands with soap and warm water for about 20 seconds after touching animals, their cages, food or poo, and before you eat.

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**Who acts:** simplest protection, you · **What happens:** wash, touch, eat · **To what, where:** hands, animals

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wild birds, bats and germs from animals» 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 (simplest protection, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:029-germs-from-animals.lesson:1
# text = The simplest protection is washing your hands with soap and warm water for about 20 seconds after touching animals, their cages, food or poo, and before you eat.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 029-germs-from-animals.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
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	simplest	simple	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	protection	protection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	washing	wash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
17	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	advcl	_	_
19	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	cages	cage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	poo	poo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: suggest
- voice: narrator
- polarity: pos
- teacher: changed act=suggest, polarity=pos

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash** | present · progressive | the simplest protection | your hands |  |  | second | with soap and warm water | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with soap=Instrument |
| 2 | **touch** | gerund | the simplest protection *not said here* | animals and Animals's cages |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme animal=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **eat** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:029-germs-from-animals.lesson:1`.

**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. **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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