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title: Rubbing an eye with dirty hands can scratch it or carry germs into i… — Eyes, nose and using the toilet · tree and pragmatics
description: Rubbing an eye with dirty hands can scratch it or carry germs into it, causing a painful infection. Who acts: Rubbing. A sentence of the lesson «Eyes, nose and using the toilet» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Eyes, nose and using the toilet, sentence 20

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Rubbing an eye with dirty hands can scratch it or carry germs into it, causing a painful infection.

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**Who acts:** Rubbing · **What happens:** rub, scratch, carry, cause · **To what, where:** eye, medicine, germs, painful infection

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Eyes, nose and using the toilet» 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 (Rubbing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:078-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet.lesson:20
# text = Rubbing an eye with dirty hands can scratch it or carry germs into it, causing a painful infection.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 078-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	Rubbing	rub	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	scratch	scratch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=8:cc
11	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
12	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	causing	cause	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	painful	painful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	infection	infection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **rub** | gerund |  | a eye |  |  |  | with dirty hands | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Destination with hand=Theme |
| 2 | **scratch** | can | Rubbing | medicine |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **carry** | infinitive | Rubbing *not said here* | germs |  | medicine |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme |
| 4 | **cause** | gerund | Rubbing *not said here* | a painful infection |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition infection=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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**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:078-eyes-nose-and-the-toilet.lesson:20`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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