--- title: The 5-second rule is a myth: bacteria can move onto dropped food in… — Germs, the immune system and hand-washing · tree and pragmatics description: The 5-second rule is a myth: bacteria can move onto dropped food in under a second, depending on the food and the floor. Who acts: 5 second rule, bacteria. 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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 (5 second rule, bacteria), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:030-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing.lesson:12 # text = The 5-second rule is a myth: bacteria can move onto dropped food in under a second, depending on the food and the floor. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 030-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 2 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 5 compound _ _ 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 : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 bacteria bacterium NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:acl:relcl 13 onto onto ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 dropped drop VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ _ 15 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 under under ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 second second NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 depending depend VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | the 5 second rule | a myth | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **move** | can | bacteria | | | dropped food | second | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme onto food=Trajectory | | 3 | **drop** | participle | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **depend** | gerund | bacteria *not said here* | | | | | on the food and the floor | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on food=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:medicine:030-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing.lesson:12`. **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, 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. 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