--- title: Fingers and toes wrinkle in the bath because nerves make them do it,… — The human body deeper: bones, muscles and skin · tree and pragmatics description: Fingers and toes wrinkle in the bath because nerves make them do it, perhaps for better grip in the wet, like tyre treads; a finger whose nerve is cut does not wrinkle. Who acts: Fingers, nerves, finger. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fingers, nerves, finger), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:263-human-body-deeper-bones-muscles-and-skin.lesson:17 # text = Fingers and toes wrinkle in the bath because nerves make them do it, perhaps for better grip in the wet, like tyre treads; a finger whose nerve is cut does not wrinkle. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 263-human-body-deeper-bones-muscles-and-skin.lesson # annotation = 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Fingers finger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 toes toe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 wrinkle wrinkle VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 bath bath NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 because because SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 nerves nerve NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 amod _ _ 18 grip grip NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 wet wet NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 like like ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 tyre tyre NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 treads tread NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:conj 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 29 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 nerve nerve NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl:relcl _ _ 33 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 wrinkle wrinkle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wrinkle** | present | Fingers and toes | | | the bath | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **make** | present | nerves | Fingers *= finger* | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **do** | infinitive | Fingers *= finger* *not said here* | nerve | | | | for better grip in the wet like tyre treads | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 4 | **cut** | present · passive | | nerve | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 5 | **not** **wrinkle** | present · do-support | a finger | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:263-human-body-deeper-bones-muscles-and-skin.lesson:17`. **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, 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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