Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits and bad breath, sentence 4

The cure for most smells is the same: wash the bacteria off, dry the skin, air the shoes, brush teeth and tongue, and drink water.

Who acts: cure · What happens: be, wash off, dry, air, brush, drink · To what, where: bacteria, skin, shoes, teeth, water

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 (cure), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cure	det
2	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 same	nsubj
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 smells	case
4	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 smells	amod
5	smells	smell	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cure	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 same	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 same	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 wash	punct
10	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 same	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bacteria	det
12	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wash	obj
13	off	off	ADP	_	10 wash	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dry	punct
15	dry	dry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 wash	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 skin	det
17	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dry	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 air	punct
19	air	air	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 wash	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 shoes	det
21	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 air	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 brush	punct
23	brush	brush	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 wash	conj
24	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 brush	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 tongue	cc
26	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 teeth	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 drink	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 drink	cc
29	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 same	conj
30	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 drink	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 same	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the cure for most smells		same property	tree rules
2	wash off	infinitive		the bacteria		vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bacteria=Patient
3	dry	infinitive		the skin		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient skin=Result
4	air	infinitive		the shoes		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient
5	brush	infinitive		teeth and tongue		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme
6	drink	infinitive	the cure for most smells not said here	water		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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:4.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1. 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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