--- title: Nails are plates of keratin, the same tough stuff as hair, growing o… — Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits an… · tree and pragmatics description: Nails are plates of keratin, the same tough stuff as hair, growing out from a root under the skin to guard your fingertips and help you pick up small things. Who acts: Nails, plates, you. 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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 (Nails, plates, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:356-nails-sweat-and-smells-smelly-feet-armpits-and-bad-breath.lesson:0 # text = Nails are plates of keratin, the same tough stuff as hair, growing out from a root under the skin to guard your fingertips and help you pick up small things. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 356-nails-sweat-and-smells-smelly-feet-armpits-and-bad-breath.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): no change 1 Nails nail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 plates plate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 keratin keratin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 tough tough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 stuff stuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 11 as as ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 14 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 15 out out ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 root root NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 under under ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 guard guard VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 24 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 fingertips fingertip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ _ 30 up up ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Nails | plates | | | | of keratin | tree rules | | 2 | **grow out** | gerund | plates *not said here* | | | | | from a root under the skin | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from root=Patient | | 3 | **guard** | to-infinitive | plates *not said here* | your fingertips | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fingertip=Beneficiary | | 4 | **help** | infinitive | plates *not said here* | you | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme | | 5 | **pick up** | infinitive | you *not said here* | small things | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic | 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:356-nails-sweat-and-smells-smelly-feet-armpits-and-bad-breath.lesson:0`. **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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