Hair, nails and ears, sentence 2

Dirt and germs collect under nails, so nails are kept short and clean; fingernails are cut following their curve and toenails straight across, so they do not grow into the skin.

Who acts: Dirt, fingernails · What happens: collect, keep, cut, follow, not grow · To what, where: nails, fingernails, curve, skin

This is a sentence of the lesson «Hair, nails and ears» 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 (Dirt, fingernails), 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	Dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 collect	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 germs	cc
3	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Dirt	conj
4	collect	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	under	under	ADP	_	6 nails	case
6	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 collect	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kept	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 kept	advmod
9	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 kept	nsubj:pass
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 kept	aux:pass
11	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 collect	conj
12	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 kept	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 clean	cc
14	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 short	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 cut	punct
16	fingernails	fingernail	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 cut	nsubj:pass
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 cut	aux:pass
18	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 collect	conj
19	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 cut	advcl
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 curve	nmod:poss
21	curve	curve	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 following	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 toenails	cc
23	toenails	toenail	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 curve	conj
24	straight	straight	ADV	_	25 across	advmod
25	across	across	ADV	_	23 toenails	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 grow	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	31 grow	advmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 grow	nsubj
29	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 grow	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 grow	advmod
31	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 collect	parataxis
32	into	into	ADP	_	34 skin	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 skin	det
34	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 grow	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 collect	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	collect	present	Dirt and germs		nails		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	keep	present · passive		nails		short property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	cut	present · passive		fingernails			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product
4	follow	gerund		nails's curve and toenails			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curve=Theme
5	not grow	present · do-support	fingernails = fingernail			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:077-hair-nails-and-ears.lesson:2.

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): R3-conj-first ×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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