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title: Washing hands with soap and water for about 20 seconds, including th… — Germs, the immune system and hand-washing · tree and pragmatics
description: Washing hands with soap and water for about 20 seconds, including thumbs, between fingers and under nails, removes germs that cause colds and tummy bugs. Who acts: germs. A sentence of the lesson «Germs, the immune system and hand-washing» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dep
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# Germs, the immune system and hand-washing, sentence 9

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Washing hands with soap and water for about 20 seconds, including thumbs, between fingers and under nails, removes germs that cause colds and tummy bugs.

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**Who acts:** germs · **What happens:** wash, remove, cause · **To what, where:** hands, germs, colds

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Germs, the immune system and hand-washing» 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 (germs), 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:9
# text = Washing hands with soap and water for about 20 seconds, including thumbs, between fingers and under nails, removes germs that cause colds and tummy bugs.
# 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): no change
1	Washing	wash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
2	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	including	include	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	thumbs	thumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	between	between	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	under	under	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	nails	nail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
21	removes	remove	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	cause	cause	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	colds	cold	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	tummy	tummy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	bugs	bug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	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 | **wash** | gerund |  | hands |  |  | second | with soap and water | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with soap=Instrument |
| 2 | **remove** | present |  | germs |  |  |  |  | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme |
| 3 | **cause** | present | germs | colds and tummy bugs |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition cold=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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**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.

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