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title: Biting nails and sucking fingers move germs from the hands into the… — The dentist and washing your hands · tree and pragmatics
description: Biting nails and sucking fingers move germs from the hands into the body. Who acts: Biting. 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 15

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Biting nails and sucking fingers move germs from the hands into the body.

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**Who acts:** Biting · **What happens:** bite, suck, move · **To what, where:** nails, fingers, germs, hands

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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 (Biting), 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:15
# text = Biting nails and sucking fingers move germs from the hands into the body.
# 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	Biting	bite	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	csubj	_	_
2	nails	nail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	sucking	suck	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
5	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **bite** | gerund |  | nails |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Patient |
| 2 | **suck** | gerund |  | fingers |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent finger=Source |
| 3 | **move** | present | Biting | germs |  | the hands |  | into the body | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent germ=Theme into body=Source from hand=Trajectory |

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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:15`.

**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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