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title: Skipping hand-washing after the toilet can spread tummy bugs to you… — Excuses and the lies that grow · tree and pragmatics
description: Skipping hand-washing after the toilet can spread tummy bugs to you and your family. Who acts: Skipping. A sentence of the lesson «Excuses and the lies that grow» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Excuses and the lies that grow, sentence 25

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Skipping hand-washing after the toilet can spread tummy bugs to you and your family.

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**Who acts:** Skipping · **What happens:** skip, spread · **To what, where:** hand washing, tummy bugs, you

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Excuses and the lies that grow» 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 (Skipping), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow.lesson:25
# text = Skipping hand-washing after the toilet can spread tummy bugs to you and your family.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow.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	Skipping	skip	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
2	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
4	washing	wash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	toilet	toilet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obl
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	tummy	tummy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	bugs	bug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **skip** | gerund |  | hand washing |  |  | after the toilet |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wash=Agent |
| 2 | **spread** | can | Skipping | tummy bugs | you |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bug=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:337-excuses-and-the-lies-that-grow.lesson:25`.

**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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