--- title: The dentist and washing your hands — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The dentist and washing your hands», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A dentist is a doctor for teeth: they look for holes, clean the teeth, and fix small problems before they become big and painful ones. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / The dentist and washing your hands # The dentist and washing your hands Lesson 75 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 19 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/0/) — A dentist is a doctor for teeth: they look for holes, clean the teeth, and fix small problems before they become big and painful ones. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/1/) — Feeling nervous is normal; you can tell the dentist, ask what they will do, and agree a signal, like raising your hand, for them to stop. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/2/) — Germs are too small to see, and our hands carry them everywhere: onto food, into our mouths and onto things other people touch, so washing hands with soap is one of the best ways to stay well. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/3/) — Good washing reaches the parts people forget: the backs of the hands, between the fingers, the thumbs, the fingertips and the wrists. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/4/) — A girl in Denver cleans her rabbit's cage, then washes her hands with soap before she helps her dad make sandwiches, so no germs go from the rabbit into the food. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/6/) — A filling fixes a hole in a tooth so it does not get bigger and hurt more. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/7/) — After a numbing injection the lip and cheek feel fat and strange for a few hours, and you must not bite or chew them. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/8/) — Sealants and fluoride varnish are quick, painless coatings that help protect the back teeth from decay. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/9/) — With a brace you brush very carefully around the wires and avoid sticky and hard food. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/10/) — Hands are washed before eating or cooking, because dirty hands put germs on food. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/11/) — Good hand washing rubs the palms, the backs, between the fingers, the thumbs, the fingertips and the wrists. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/12/) — Pets can carry germs that make people ill, so hands are washed after touching them or their cages. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/13/) — After blowing your nose or coughing into your hands you wash or sanitise them (clean them with hand gel), so cold germs do not spread. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/14/) — If the soap at school runs out, you tell a teacher. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/15/) — Biting nails and sucking fingers move germs from the hands into the body. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/16/) — A boy in Leeds skipped his dentist check-ups for two years; a small hole the dentist would have found early grew so big that the tooth needed a root treatment. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/17/) — At a birthday party in Ohio, several children who ate without washing their hands after playing outside got a tummy bug, and some were sick for days. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/18/) — Many tummy bugs spread when people do not wash their hands after the toilet or before eating. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/19/) — A dentist can find a small cavity before it hurts and fill it quickly; left alone, it grows and needs much bigger treatment. - ← previous: [Flossing and caring for your teeth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/74-flossing-and-caring-for-teeth/) - next →: [Washing your body and caring for your hair](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/76-washing-your-body-and-hair/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)