Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits and bad breath, sentence 10

Around puberty special sweat glands in the armpits switch on; their sweat is not smelly until bacteria eat it, which is why a wash helps and why older children use deodorant.

Who acts: special sweat glands, sweat, bacteria, wash, older children · What happens: switch on, not be, eat, be, help, use · To what, where: puberty, sweat, deodorant

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 (special sweat glands, sweat, bacteria, wash), 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	Around	around	ADP	_	2 puberty	case
2	puberty	puberty	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 switch	obl
3	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 glands	amod
4	sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 glands	compound
5	glands	gland	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 switch	nsubj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 armpits	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 armpits	det
8	armpits	armpit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 glands	nmod
9	switch	switch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	on	on	ADP	_	9 switch	compound:prt
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 switch	punct
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 sweat	nmod:poss
13	sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 smelly	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 smelly	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 smelly	advmod
16	smelly	smelly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 switch	parataxis
17	until	until	SCONJ	_	19 eat	mark
18	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 eat	nsubj
19	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 smelly	advcl
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 eat	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 why	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 why	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 why	cop
24	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	16 smelly	parataxis
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 wash	det
26	wash	wash	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 helps	nsubj
27	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 why	advcl:relcl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 use	cc
29	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	32 use	advmod
30	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 children	amod
31	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 use	nsubj
32	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 helps	conj
33	deodorant	deodorant	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 use	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 switch	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	switch on	present	special sweat glands in the armpits		puberty		vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	not is	present	glands's sweat			smelly property	tree rules
3	eat	present	bacteria	sweat			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	is	present				why property	tree rules
5	help	present	a wash				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	use	present	older children	deodorant			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deodorant=Patient

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:10.

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): R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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