Teeth, nails, baths and toilets, sentence 13
Fingernails are cut following their curve and toenails straight across, with nail clippers or by an adult.
What happens: cut, follow · To what, where: Fingernails, curve
This is a sentence of the lesson «Teeth, nails, baths and toilets» of the everyday 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: 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 | 3 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 cut | aux:pass |
| 3 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 cut | advcl |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 curve | nmod:poss |
| 6 | curve | curve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 following | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 toenails | cc |
| 8 | toenails | toenail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 curve | conj |
| 9 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 10 across | advmod |
| 10 | across | across | ADV | _ | 4 following | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 clippers | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 clippers | case |
| 13 | nail | nail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 clippers | compound |
| 14 | clippers | clipper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cut | obl |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 adult | cc |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 adult | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 adult | det |
| 18 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 clippers | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | present · passive | Fingernails | with nail clippers or a adult | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient with clipper=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | Fingernails's curve and toenails | across property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curve=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:everyday:208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets.lesson:13.
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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