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title: A girl in Denver cleans her rabbit's cage, then washes her hands wit… — The dentist and washing your hands · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Denver cleans her rabbit's cage, then washes her hands with soap before she helps her dad make sandwiches, so no germs go from the rabbit into the food. Who acts: girl, hand, dad, germs. A sentence of the lesson «The dentist and washing your hands» of the everyday course of Mova's primary 
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# The dentist and washing your hands, sentence 4

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A girl in Denver cleans her rabbit's cage, then washes her hands with soap before she helps her dad make sandwiches, so no germs go from the rabbit into the food.

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**Who acts:** girl, hand, dad, germs · **What happens:** clean, wash, help, make, go · **To what, where:** cage, hands, sandwiches, food

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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 (girl, hand, dad, 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:4
# text = A girl in Denver cleans her rabbit's cage, then washes her hands with soap before she helps her dad make sandwiches, so no germs go from the rabbit into the food.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Denver	Denver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	cleans	clean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:conj
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	washes	wash	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
23	sandwiches	sandwich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	27	det	_	_
27	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **clean** | present | a girl in Denver | girl's rabbit's cage |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cage=Patient |
| 2 | **wash** | present | a girl in Denver *not said here* | girl's hands |  |  | then | with soap | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with soap=Instrument |
| 3 | **help** | present | hand |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | infinitive | hand's dad | sandwiches |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sandwich=Product |
| 5 | **go** | present | no germs |  |  | the food |  | from the rabbit | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from rabbit=Initial\_Location into food=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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**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:4`.

**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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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/).

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