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title: Damp shared towels can pass on athlete's foot, verrucas and skin inf… — Changing-room germs · tree and pragmatics
description: Damp shared towels can pass on athlete's foot, verrucas and skin infections, and washing towels at 60°C gets rid of more germs. Who acts: Damp shared towels. A sentence of the lesson «Changing-room germs» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Changing-room germs, sentence 13

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Damp shared towels can pass on athlete's foot, verrucas and skin infections, and washing towels at 60°C gets rid of more germs.

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**Who acts:** Damp shared towels · **What happens:** share, pass on, wash, get · **To what, where:** foot, towels, 60 °

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Changing-room germs» 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 (Damp shared towels), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:059-changing-room-germs.lesson:13
# text = Damp shared towels can pass on athlete's foot, verrucas and skin infections, and washing towels at 60°C gets rid of more germs.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 059-changing-room-germs.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	Damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	shared	share	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	towels	towel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	athlete	athlete	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	verrucas	verruca	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	infections	infection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	washing	wash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	nsubj	_	_
18	towels	towel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	60	60	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	°	°	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	C	c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	rid	rid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	amod	_	_
27	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **share** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass on** | can | Damp shared towels | athlete's foot and verrucas and skin infections |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme |
| 3 | **wash** | gerund |  | towels |  | 60 ° |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent towel=Patient |
| 4 | **get** | present |  |  |  |  |  | rid *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:059-changing-room-germs.lesson:13`.

**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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