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title: Good hand washing rubs the palms, the backs, between the fingers, th… — The dentist and washing your hands · tree and pragmatics
description: Good hand washing rubs the palms, the backs, between the fingers, the thumbs, the fingertips and the wrists. Who acts: Good hand washing. 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
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# The dentist and washing your hands, sentence 11

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Good hand washing rubs the palms, the backs, between the fingers, the thumbs, the fingertips and the wrists.

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**Who acts:** Good hand washing · **What happens:** rub · **To what, where:** palms, fingers

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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 (Good hand washing), 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:11
# text = Good hand washing rubs the palms, the backs, between the fingers, the thumbs, the fingertips and the wrists.
# 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	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	washing	wash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rubs	rub	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	palms	palm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	backs	back	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	between	between	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	thumbs	thumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fingertips	fingertip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	wrists	wrist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
23	.	.	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 | **rub** | present | Good hand washing | the palms and the backs and the thumbs and the fingertips and the wrists |  | the fingers |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent palm=Theme between finger=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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**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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