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title: Reptiles often carry salmonella germs, so you wash your hands with s… — Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet · tree and pragmatics
description: Reptiles often carry salmonella germs, so you wash your hands with soap after every touch. Who acts: Reptiles, you. A sentence of the lesson «Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet, sentence 13

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Reptiles often carry salmonella germs, so you wash your hands with soap after every touch.

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

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet» 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 (Reptiles, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:064-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet.lesson:13
# text = Reptiles often carry salmonella germs, so you wash your hands with soap after every touch.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 064-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet.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): no change
1	Reptiles	reptile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	salmonella	salmonella	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	wash	wash	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	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 | **carry** | present | Reptiles | salmonella germs |  |  |  | often *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme |
| 2 | **wash** | present | you | your hands |  |  | after every touch | with soap | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with soap=Instrument |

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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:064-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet.lesson:13`.

**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): no change. **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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