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title: Children who visited a petting farm in England and did not wash thei… — Wild birds, bats and germs from animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Children who visited a petting farm in England and did not wash their hands properly caught a germ called E. coli; some became very ill and had to go to hospital. Who acts: Children, germ, some. A sentence of the lesson «Wild birds, bats and germs from animals» of the everyday course of Mova's prima
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# Wild birds, bats and germs from animals, sentence 6

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Children who visited a petting farm in England and did not wash their hands properly caught a germ called E. coli; some became very ill and had to go to hospital.

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**Who acts:** Children, germ, some · **What happens:** visit, not wash, catch, call, become, have · **To what, where:** petting farm, England, hands, germ, E. coli, hospital · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Children, germ, some), 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:6
# text = Children who visited a petting farm in England and did not wash their hands properly caught a germ called E. coli; some became very ill and had to go to hospital.
# 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	petting	petting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:advmod
16	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	germ	germ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	E.	E.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	coli	coli	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	xcomp	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind
24	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3: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 | **visit** | past | Children | a petting farm |  | England |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farm=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **not** **wash** | past · do-support | Children *not said here* | Children's hands |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 3 | **catch** | past | Children | a germ |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme |
| 4 | **call** | participle | a germ *not said here* | E. coli |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **become** | past | some |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **have** | past | some *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **go** | to-infinitive | some *not said here* |  |  | hospital |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to hospital=Initial\_Location |

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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:6`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

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