--- title: Washing your body and caring for your hair — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Washing your body and caring for your hair», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Our skin sweats every day, and sweat with dirt and germs starts to smell, so we wash all over with soap two or three times a w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/76-washing-your-body-and-hair/) [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/) / Washing your body and caring for your… # Washing your body and caring for your hair Lesson 76 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 19 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/76-washing-your-body-and-hair/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/76-washing-your-body-and-hair/0/) — Our skin sweats every day, and sweat with dirt and germs starts to smell, so we wash all over with soap two or three times a week at least, and every day when we have been sweaty. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/76-washing-your-body-and-hair/1/) — Bathrooms have hidden dangers: very hot water scalds, wet floors are slippery, water and electricity together can kill, and a small child can drown in a few centimetres of water. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/76-washing-your-body-and-hair/2/) — Some things are only for one person: towels, combs, brushes and hats, because germs, skin infections and head lice spread through them. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/76-washing-your-body-and-hair/3/) — Head lice are tiny insects that live in hair; anyone can get them, clean or dirty, and they are easy to treat with a fine-tooth comb. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/76-washing-your-body-and-hair/4/) — A girl in Sydney runs her bath with the cold water first, then the hot, and an adult tests it with an elbow before she gets in, so she never gets scalded. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/76-washing-your-body-and-hair/6/) — Bath water is run cold first, then hot, and an adult checks it with an elbow, which feels heat better than a hand, because hot water can scald skin badly. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/76-washing-your-body-and-hair/7/) — Wet bathroom floors are slippery, so you step out of the bath or shower carefully onto a bath mat. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/76-washing-your-body-and-hair/8/) — Behind the ears, under the arms, the feet and the private parts get sweaty, so they are washed with soap, and toes are dried well to stop fungus. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/76-washing-your-body-and-hair/9/) — A small child must never be left alone in a bath, because small children can drown in a few centimetres of water in seconds. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/76-washing-your-body-and-hair/10/) — Electrical things like hair dryers are never used near water, because water and electricity together can kill. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/76-washing-your-body-and-hair/11/) — Towels can spread germs and skin infections, so everyone uses their own. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/76-washing-your-body-and-hair/12/) — Clean underwear and socks are worn every day, because they hold sweat and germs. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/76-washing-your-body-and-hair/14/) — Hair is washed with shampoo when it looks or feels greasy, often two or three times a week, and rinsed well. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/76-washing-your-body-and-hair/16/) — Head lice (people often call them nits) spread through shared combs, brushes and hats and touching heads, and they are not a sign of being dirty. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/76-washing-your-body-and-hair/17/) — Children do not cut their own hair, because it often goes wrong and scissors near the eyes are dangerous. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/76-washing-your-body-and-hair/18/) — A boy in Florida rarely showered after football; his feet got an itchy, cracked fungus between the toes that took weeks of cream to clear. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/76-washing-your-body-and-hair/19/) — A girl in Manchester had head lice but did not tell anyone because she was embarrassed; they spread to her sister and three friends before they were treated. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/76-washing-your-body-and-hair/20/) — Athlete's foot is a fungus that grows in warm, damp skin, so drying between your toes after washing helps stop it. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/76-washing-your-body-and-hair/21/) — Head lice are common in schools, are not caused by being dirty, and spread from head to head until they are treated. - ← previous: [The dentist and washing your hands](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/75-the-dentist-and-washing-hands/) - next →: [Hair, nails and ears](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/77-hair-nails-and-ears/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)