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title: Holding in wee for a long time often can lead to urine infections, s… — Eyes, nose and using the toilet · tree and pragmatics
description: Holding in wee for a long time often can lead to urine infections, so you go when you need to; urine is the grown-up word for wee. Who acts: Holding, you, urine. 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 th
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# Eyes, nose and using the toilet, sentence 22

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Holding in wee for a long time often can lead to urine infections, so you go when you need to; urine is the grown-up word for wee.

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**Who acts:** Holding, you, urine · **What happens:** hold, lead, go, need, grow up, be · **To what, where:** wee, grown word

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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 (Holding, you, urine), 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:22
# text = Holding in wee for a long time often can lead to urine infections, so you go when you need to; urine is the grown-up word for wee.
# 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): R4-particle ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Holding	hold	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	csubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	wee	wee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	often	often	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	urine	urine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	infections	infection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	xcomp	_	_
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	urine	urine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=26:compound
29	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	wee	wee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | gerund |  |  |  | wee | time |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wee=Location |
| 2 | **lead** | can | Holding |  |  |  |  | to urine infections; often *property* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to infection=Patient |
| 3 | **go** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **need** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **is a** | present | urine | the grown word |  |  |  | for wee | tree rules |

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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:22`.

**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): R4-particle ×1, 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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