Teeth, nails, baths and toilets, sentence 4
Fingernails are cut following their curve, toenails straight across, so the corners do not grow into the skin.
Who acts: corners · What happens: cut, follow, not grow · To what, where: Fingernails, curve, skin
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: who acts (corners), 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 |
| 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 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 toenails | punct |
| 8 | toenails | toenail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 curve | conj |
| 9 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 10 across | advmod |
| 10 | across | across | ADV | _ | 8 toenails | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 grow | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 grow | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 corners | det |
| 14 | corners | corner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 grow | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 grow | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 grow | advmod |
| 17 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 cut | conj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 skin | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 skin | det |
| 20 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grow | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | present · passive | Fingernails | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | Fingernails's curve and toenails | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curve=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not grow | present · do-support | the corners | into the skin result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into skin=Result |
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: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): 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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