Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits and bad breath, sentence 8

People have twenty nails, ten on the fingers and ten on the toes; biting nails carries germs from the hands to the mouth.

Who acts: People, biting · What happens: have, bite, carry · To what, where: twenty nails, nails, germs, hands

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 (People, biting), 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	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 nails	nummod
4	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 carries	punct
6	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 nails	appos
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 fingers	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fingers	det
9	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ten	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 toes	cc
11	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 toes	nummod
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 toes	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 toes	det
14	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fingers	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 carries	punct
16	biting	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 carries	csubj
17	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 biting	obj
18	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	parataxis
19	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 carries	obj
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 hands	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hands	det
22	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 carries	obl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 mouth	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 mouth	det
25	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 carries	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	People	twenty nails			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Patient
2	bite	gerund		nails			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Patient
3	carry	present	biting	germs	the hands	to the mouth	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent germ=Theme from hand=Initial_Location to mouth=Destination

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:8.

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): R5-strong ×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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