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title: A toothbrush is never shared, because it can carry germs and blood f… — Brushing your teeth · tree and pragmatics
description: A toothbrush is never shared, because it can carry germs and blood from one mouth to another. Who acts: toothbrush. A sentence of the lesson «Brushing your teeth» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Brushing your teeth, sentence 13

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A toothbrush is never shared, because it can carry germs and blood from one mouth to another.

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**Who acts:** toothbrush · **What happens:** not share, carry · **To what, where:** toothbrush, germs, one mouth

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Brushing your teeth» 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 (toothbrush), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:073-brushing-your-teeth.lesson:13
# text = A toothbrush is never shared, because it can carry germs and blood from one mouth to another.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 073-brushing-your-teeth.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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	toothbrush	toothbrush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
11	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	another	another	PRON	DT	PronType=Ind	16	nmod	_	_
19	.	.	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 | **not** **share** | present · passive |  | a toothbrush |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry** | can | toothbrush | germs and blood |  | one mouth to another |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent germ=Theme from mouth=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:073-brushing-your-teeth.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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