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title: Hands are washed before eating or cooking, because dirty hands put g… — The dentist and washing your hands · tree and pragmatics
description: Hands are washed before eating or cooking, because dirty hands put germs on food. Who acts: dirty hands. A sentence of the lesson «The dentist and washing your hands» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The dentist and washing your hands, sentence 10

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Hands are washed before eating or cooking, because dirty hands put germs on food.

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**Who acts:** dirty hands · **What happens:** wash, eat, cook, put · **To what, where:** Hands, germs, food

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The dentist and washing your hands» 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 (dirty hands), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:075-the-dentist-and-washing-hands.lesson:10
# text = Hands are washed before eating or cooking, because dirty hands put germs on food.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 075-the-dentist-and-washing-hands.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	Hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	cooking	cook	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	put	put	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
13	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash** | present · passive |  | Hands |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cook** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **put** | present | dirty hands | germs |  | food |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme on food=Destination |

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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:075-the-dentist-and-washing-hands.lesson:10`.

**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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