Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits and bad breath, sentence 5

Fingernails grow about three millimetres a month and toenails more slowly; a whole fingernail takes about six months to grow out and a toenail a year or more.

Who acts: Fingernails, whole fingernail · What happens: grow, take, grow out · To what, where: three millimetres

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 (Fingernails, whole fingernail), 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	Fingernails	fingernail	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	nsubj
2	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	4 three	advmod
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 millimetres	nummod
5	millimetres	millimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grow	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 month	det
7	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 millimetres	nmod:unmarked
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 toenails	cc
9	toenails	toenail	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 month	conj
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 grow	advmod
11	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	10 more	advmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 takes	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 fingernail	det
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fingernail	amod
15	fingernail	fingernail	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 takes	nsubj
16	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 grow	parataxis
17	about	about	ADV	_	18 six	advmod
18	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 months	nummod
19	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 takes	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 grow	mark
21	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 takes	advcl
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 grow	compound:prt
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 toenail	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 toenail	det
25	toenail	toenail	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grow	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 year	det
27	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grow	obl:unmarked
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 more	cc
29	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 year	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	grow	present	Fingernails	three millimetres a month and toenails		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	present	a whole fingernail		month	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	grow out	to-infinitive	a whole fingernail not said here		year	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:5.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-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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