Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits and bad breath, sentence 0

Nails are plates of keratin, the same tough stuff as hair, growing out from a root under the skin to guard your fingertips and help you pick up small things.

Who acts: Nails, plates, you · What happens: be, grow out, guard, help, pick up · To what, where: plates, fingertips, you, small things

This is a sentence of the lesson «Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits and bad breath» of the biology 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 (Nails, plates, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 plates	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 plates	cop
3	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 keratin	case
5	keratin	keratin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plates	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stuff	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stuff	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stuff	amod
9	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stuff	amod
10	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keratin	appos
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 hair	case
12	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stuff	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 plates	punct
14	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 plates	acl
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 growing	compound:prt
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 root	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 root	det
18	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 growing	obl
19	under	under	ADP	_	21 skin	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 skin	det
21	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 root	nmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 guard	mark
23	guard	guard	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 growing	advcl
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 fingertips	nmod:poss
25	fingertips	fingertip	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 guard	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 help	cc
27	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 guard	conj
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 help	obj
29	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 help	xcomp
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 pick	compound:prt
31	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 things	amod
32	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 pick	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 plates	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Nails	plates	of keratin	tree rules
2	grow out	gerund	plates not said here		from a root under the skin	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from root=Patient
3	guard	to-infinitive	plates not said here	your fingertips		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fingertip=Beneficiary
4	help	infinitive	plates not said here	you		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme
5	pick up	infinitive	you not said here	small things		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic

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, 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:biology:356-nails-sweat-and-smells-smelly-feet-armpits-and-bad-breath.lesson:0.

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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