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title: Bath water is run cold first, then hot, and an adult checks it with… — Washing your body and caring for your hair · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: adult, elbow, hot water. A sentence of the lesson «Washing your body and caring for your hair» of the everyday course of Mova's primary
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# Washing your body and caring for your hair, sentence 6

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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.

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**Who acts:** adult, elbow, hot water · **What happens:** run, check, feel, scald · **To what, where:** Bath water, bath, heat, skin

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Washing your body and caring for your hair» 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 (adult, elbow, hot water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:076-washing-your-body-and-hair.lesson:6
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 076-washing-your-body-and-hair.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 ×1
1	Bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	checks	check	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	elbow	elbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	feels	feel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	heat	heat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	better	well	ADV	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
28	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:aux
32	scald	scald	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
33	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	_
35	.	.	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 | **run** | present · passive |  | Bath water |  |  |  | cold, first *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
| 2 | **check** | present | a adult | bath |  |  |  | with a elbow | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **feel** | present | a elbow | heat |  |  |  | well *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme |
| 4 | **scald** | can | hot water | skin |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent skin=Patient |

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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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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