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title: Sneezes spray germs a long way, so you sneeze into a tissue or your… — Germs, sneezes and dressing for the weather · tree and pragmatics
description: Sneezes spray germs a long way, so you sneeze into a tissue or your elbow, not your hands. Who acts: Sneezes, you. 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 5

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Sneezes spray germs a long way, so you sneeze into a tissue or your elbow, not your hands.

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**Who acts:** Sneezes, you · **What happens:** spray, sneeze · **To what, where:** germs, hands, tissue

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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 (Sneezes, you), 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:5
# text = Sneezes spray germs a long way, so you sneeze into a tissue or your elbow, not your hands.
# 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
1	Sneezes	sneeze	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spray	spray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tissue	tissue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	elbow	elbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **spray** | present | Sneezes | germs |  |  |  | a long way *obl:unmarked* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent germ=Theme |
| 2 | **sneeze** | present | you | your hands |  | a tissue or your elbow |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:5`.

**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. **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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