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title: Hand gel with alcohol kills many germs, but not all, such as norovir… — COVID and staying home · tree and pragmatics
description: Hand gel with alcohol kills many germs, but not all, such as norovirus; soap and water is better after the toilet or when hands are dirty. Who acts: Hand gel, hands. A sentence of the lesson «COVID and staying home» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pra
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# COVID and staying home, sentence 15

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Hand gel with alcohol kills many germs, but not all, such as norovirus; soap and water is better after the toilet or when hands are dirty.

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**Who acts:** Hand gel, hands · **What happens:** kill, be · **To what, where:** many germs

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This is a sentence of the lesson «COVID and staying home» of the medicine 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 (Hand gel, hands), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:012-covid-and-staying-home.lesson:15
# text = Hand gel with alcohol kills many germs, but not all, such as norovirus; soap and water is better after the toilet or when hands are dirty.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 012-covid-and-staying-home.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Hand	Hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	gel	gel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	alcohol	alcohol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	kills	kill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	nsubj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	15	case	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	norovirus	norovirus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
22	after	after	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	toilet	toilet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
27	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kill** | present | Hand gel with alcohol but norovirus | many germs |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  | after the toilet | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | hands |  |  |  |  | dirty *property* | 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:medicine:012-covid-and-staying-home.lesson:15`.

**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): 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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