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title: Wash spots gently twice a day and do not squeeze them, because squee… — Sun, cold and growing up · tree and pragmatics
description: Wash spots gently twice a day and do not squeeze them, because squeezing can cause scars and infection. Who acts: you, squeezing. A sentence of the lesson «Sun, cold and growing up» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Sun, cold and growing up, sentence 14

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Wash spots gently twice a day and do not squeeze them, because squeezing can cause scars and infection.

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**Who acts:** you, squeezing · **What happens:** wash, not squeeze, cause · **To what, where:** spots, scars

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Sun, cold and growing up» 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 (you, squeezing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:086-sun-cold-and-growing-up.lesson:14
# text = Wash spots gently twice a day and do not squeeze them, because squeezing can cause scars and infection.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 086-sun-cold-and-growing-up.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): no change
1	Wash	wash	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	spots	spot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	1	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	squeezing	squeezing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
17	scars	scar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	infection	infection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash** | imperative | you *not said here* | spots |  |  |  | gently, twice *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **squeeze** | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* | spots *= spot* |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **cause** | can | squeezing | scars and infection |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition scar=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:086-sun-cold-and-growing-up.lesson:14`.

**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): no change. **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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