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title: At a birthday party in Ohio, several children who ate without washin… — The dentist and washing your hands · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: several children, some. A sentence of the lesson «The dentist and washing your hands» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with i
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# The dentist and washing your hands, sentence 17

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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.

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**Who acts:** several children, some · **What happens:** eat, wash, play, get, be · **To what, where:** hands, tummy bug, birthday party

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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 (several children, some), 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:17
# text = 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.
# 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	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	birthday	birthday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	washing	wash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
18	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	tummy	tummy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	bug	bug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	nsubj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | several children |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wash** | gerund | several children *not said here* | children's hands |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 3 | **play** | gerund | several children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **get** | past | several children | a tummy bug |  | a birthday party in Ohio |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent bug=Theme at party=Asset |
| 5 | **is** | past | some |  |  |  | day | sick *property* | tree rules |

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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:17`.

**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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