--- title: Many sayings about germs are myths: wet hair does not give you a col… — Germs, sneezes and dressing for the weather · tree and pragmatics description: Many sayings about germs are myths: wet hair does not give you a cold, food on the floor picks up germs at once, and antibiotics do not cure colds, because they only work on bacteria. Who acts: Many sayings, wet hair, food, antibiotics. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many sayings, wet hair, food, antibiotics), 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:2 # text = Many sayings about germs are myths: wet hair does not give you a cold, food on the floor picks up germs at once, and antibiotics do not cure colds, because they only work on bacteria. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 sayings saying NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 about about ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 myths myth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 8 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 10 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 iobj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 cold cold NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=12:punct 17 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 picks pick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 21 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 antibiotics antibiotic NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 29 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 cure cure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 32 colds cold NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 because because SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 35 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 only only ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 work work VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 38 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 bacteria bacteria NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Many sayings about germs | myths | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **give** | present · do-support | wet hair | a cold | you | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient cold=Theme | | 3 | **pick up** | present | food on the floor | germs | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Topic | | 4 | **not** **cure** | present · do-support | antibiotics | colds | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer cold=Source | | 5 | **work** | present | antibiotics *= antibiotic* | | | | | on bacteria | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on bacteria=Theme | 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. **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:2`. **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): 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. 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