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title: The five-second rule is a myth: food that falls on the floor picks u… — Germs, sneezes and dressing for the weather · tree and pragmatics
description: The five-second rule is a myth: food that falls on the floor picks up germs at once. Who acts: second rule, food. A sentence of the lesson «Germs, sneezes and dressing for the weather» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Germs, sneezes and dressing for the weather, sentence 10

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The five-second rule is a myth: food that falls on the floor picks up germs at once.

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**Who acts:** second rule, food · **What happens:** be, fall, pick up · **To what, where:** myth, floor, germs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Germs, sneezes and dressing for the weather» 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 (second rule, food), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:079-germs-sneezes-and-dressing-for-the-weather.lesson:10
# text = The five-second rule is a myth: food that falls on the floor picks up germs at once.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 079-germs-sneezes-and-dressing-for-the-weather.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nummod
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	picks	pick	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=16:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
18	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	16	obl	_	_
21	.	.	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 | **is a** | present | the second rule | a myth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | present | food |  |  | the floor |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on floor=Location |
| 3 | **pick up** | present | food | germs |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Topic |

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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:079-germs-sneezes-and-dressing-for-the-weather.lesson:10`.

**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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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