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title: Some people, more often in East Asia, have a family trait, passed do… — Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some people, more often in East Asia, have a family trait, passed down from their parents, that gives very little armpit smell and dry, flaky earwax. Who acts: people, family trait. A sentence of the lesson «Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits and bad breath» of the biology course of Mova'
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# Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits and bad breath, sentence 11

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Some people, more often in East Asia, have a family trait, passed down from their parents, that gives very little armpit smell and dry, flaky earwax.

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**Who acts:** people, family trait · **What happens:** have, pass down, give · **To what, where:** family trait, East Asia, little armpit smell

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits and bad breath» of the biology 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 (people, family trait), 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:11
# text = Some people, more often in East Asia, have a family trait, passed down from their parents, that gives very little armpit smell and dry, flaky earwax.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:advmod
5	often	often	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Asia	Asia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	trait	trait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:acl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin
16	down	down	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	parents	parent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	armpit	armpit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	smell	smell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	flaky	flaky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	earwax	earwax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | some people | a family trait |  | East Asia |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trait=Patient |
| 2 | **pass down** | participle |  | a family trait *not said here* |  |  |  | from People's parents | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from parent=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **give** | present | a family trait | little armpit smell and dry flaky earwax |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Theme |

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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.

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**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, R8-pos-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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