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title: Washing hands with soap for about 20 seconds, covering a cough and c… — Germs, hygiene and vaccines · tree and pragmatics
description: Washing hands with soap for about 20 seconds, covering a cough and cooking food well stop many of them. Who acts: 20 seconds, Washing. A sentence of the lesson «Germs, hygiene and vaccines» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Germs, hygiene and vaccines, sentence 3

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Washing hands with soap for about 20 seconds, covering a cough and cooking food well stop many of them.

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**Who acts:** 20 seconds, Washing · **What happens:** wash, cover, cook, stop · **To what, where:** hands, cough, food, many

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Germs, hygiene and vaccines» of the world 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 (20 seconds, Washing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:037-germs-hygiene-vaccines.lesson:3
# text = Washing hands with soap for about 20 seconds, covering a cough and cooking food well stop many of them.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 037-germs-hygiene-vaccines.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	17	csubj	_	_
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	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	covering	cover	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cough	cough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	cooking	cook	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	conj	_	_
15	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	stop	stop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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** | gerund |  | hands |  |  | second | with soap | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with soap=Instrument |
| 2 | **cover** | gerund | 20 seconds *not said here* | a cough |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cough=Destination |
| 3 | **cook** | gerund | 20 seconds *not said here* | food |  |  |  | well *property* | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent food=Patient |
| 4 | **stop** | present | Washing | many of food |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality many=Eventuality |

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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:world:037-germs-hygiene-vaccines.lesson:3`.

**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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