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title: Cutting toenails straight across helps stop ingrown toenails, where… — Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cutting toenails straight across helps stop ingrown toenails, where the edge grows into the skin and can get sore and infected. Who acts: Cutting, edge. A sentence of the lesson «Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits and bad breath» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dep
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# Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits and bad breath, sentence 17

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Cutting toenails straight across helps stop ingrown toenails, where the edge grows into the skin and can get sore and infected.

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**Who acts:** Cutting, edge · **What happens:** cut, help, stop, grow, get · **To what, where:** toenails, ingrown toenails, skin

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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 (Cutting, edge), 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:17
# text = Cutting toenails straight across helps stop ingrown toenails, where the edge grows into the skin and can get sore and infected.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj
2	toenails	toenail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	across	across	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
7	ingrown	ingrown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	toenails	toenail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
20	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	infected	infected	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **cut** | gerund |  | toenails |  |  |  | across, straight *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset toenail=Product |
| 2 | **help** | present | Cutting |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **stop** | infinitive | Cutting *not said here* | ingrown toenails |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality toenail=Eventuality |
| 4 | **grow** | present | the edge |  |  |  |  | into the skin *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into skin=Result |
| 5 | **get** | can | the edge *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sore *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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): 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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