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title: Pets should not lick your mouth or face, because animals' mouths car… — Birds, reptiles and choosing a pet · tree and pragmatics
description: Pets should not lick your mouth or face, because animals' mouths carry germs. Who acts: Pets, mouths. 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 19

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Pets should not lick your mouth or face, because animals' mouths carry germs.

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**Who acts:** Pets, mouths · **What happens:** not lick, carry · **To what, where:** mouth, germs

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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 (Pets, mouths), 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:19
# text = Pets should not lick your mouth or face, because animals' mouths carry germs.
# 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	Pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	lick	lick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	'	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	mouths	mouth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
15	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **not** **lick** | should | Pets | your mouth or face |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent mouth=Source |
| 2 | **carry** | present | animals's mouths | germs |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=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:064-birds-reptiles-and-choosing-a-pet.lesson:19`.

**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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