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title: Some frogs and toads have poison on their skin and can carry germs,… — Chickens, goats and little creatures · tree and pragmatics
description: Some frogs and toads have poison on their skin and can carry germs, so you wash your hands after touching them. Who acts: frogs, you. A sentence of the lesson «Chickens, goats and little creatures» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Chickens, goats and little creatures, sentence 25

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Some frogs and toads have poison on their skin and can carry germs, so you wash your hands after touching them.

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**Who acts:** frogs, you · **What happens:** have, carry, wash, touch · **To what, where:** poison, skin, germs, hands

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Chickens, goats and little creatures» 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 (frogs, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:068-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures.lesson:25
# text = Some frogs and toads have poison on their skin and can carry germs, so you wash your hands after touching them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 068-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures.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	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	toads	toad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	wash	wash	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | some frogs and toads | poison |  | frogs's skin |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poison=Patient |
| 2 | **carry** | can | some frogs and toads *not said here* | germs |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme |
| 3 | **wash** | present | you | your hands |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 4 | **touch** | gerund | you *not said here* | hands *= hand* |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-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:068-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures.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): 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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