---
title: After blowing your nose or coughing into your hands you wash or sani… — The dentist and washing your hands · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: you, cold germs. 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
---

<!-- md -->
[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/13/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/) / 13

# The dentist and washing your hands, sentence 13

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
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.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** you, cold germs · **What happens:** blow, cough, wash, sanitise, clean, not spread · **To what, where:** nose, hands, Germs

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (you, cold germs), 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:13
# text = 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.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	coughing	cough	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	wash	wash	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	parataxis	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	sanitise	sanitise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
16	clean	clean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	gel	gel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
26	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | gerund | you *not said here* | your nose |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent nose=Patient |
| 2 | **cough** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  | your hands |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into hand=Recipient |
| 3 | **wash** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sanitise** | present | you *not said here* | Germs *= germ* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **clean** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Germs *= germ* |  |  |  | with hand gel | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with gel=Instrument |
| 6 | **not** **spread** | present · do-support | cold germs |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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: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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [The dentist and washing your hands, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/12/)
- next →: [The dentist and washing your hands, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/14/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/)

