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title: Germs are too small to see, and our hands carry them everywhere: ont… — The dentist and washing your hands · tree and pragmatics
description: Germs are too small to see, and our hands carry them everywhere: onto food, into our mouths and onto things other people touch, so washing hands with soap is one of the best ways to stay well. Who acts: Germs, hands, other people. A sentence of the lesson «The dentist and washing your hands» of the 
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# The dentist and washing your hands, sentence 2

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Germs are too small to see, and our hands carry them everywhere: onto food, into our mouths and onto things other people touch, so washing hands with soap is one of the best ways to stay well.

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**Who acts:** Germs, hands, other people · **What happens:** be, see, carry, touch, wash, stay · **To what, where:** Germs, food, things, hands, one

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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 (Germs, hands, other people), 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:2
# text = Germs are too small to see, and our hands carry them everywhere: onto food, into our mouths and onto things other people touch, so washing hands with soap is one of the best ways to stay well.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	11	advmod	_	_
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	mouths	mouth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	touch	touch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	washing	wash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	nsubj	_	_
30	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	parataxis	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	38	amod	_	_
38	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	acl	_	_
41	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	40	advmod	_	_
42	.	.	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 | **is** | present | Germs |  |  |  |  | small *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | Germs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **carry** | present | our hands | Germs *= germ* |  | food |  | into our mouths and things; everywhere *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **touch** | present | other people | things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Co-Theme |
| 5 | **wash** | gerund |  | hands |  |  |  | with soap | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with soap=Instrument |
| 6 | **is a** | present |  | one |  |  |  | of the best ways | tree rules |
| 7 | **stay** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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.

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