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title: The cure for most smells is the same: wash the bacteria off, dry the… — Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits an… · tree and pragmatics
description: The cure for most smells is the same: wash the bacteria off, dry the skin, air the shoes, brush teeth and tongue, and drink water. Who acts: cure. 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 dependenc
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# Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits and bad breath, sentence 4

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The cure for most smells is the same: wash the bacteria off, dry the skin, air the shoes, brush teeth and tongue, and drink water.

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**Who acts:** cure · **What happens:** be, wash off, dry, air, brush, drink · **To what, where:** bacteria, skin, shoes, teeth, water

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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 (cure), 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:4
# text = The cure for most smells is the same: wash the bacteria off, dry the skin, air the shoes, brush teeth and tongue, and drink water.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cure	cure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	smells	smell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	wash	wash	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bacteria	bacteria	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	dry	dry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
19	air	air	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	brush	brush	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
24	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
30	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is** | present | the cure for most smells |  |  |  |  | same *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wash off** | infinitive |  | the bacteria |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bacteria=Patient |
| 3 | **dry** | infinitive |  | the skin |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient skin=Result |
| 4 | **air** | infinitive |  | the shoes |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient |
| 5 | **brush** | infinitive |  | teeth and tongue |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme |
| 6 | **drink** | infinitive | the cure for most smells *not said here* | water |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |

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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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**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:4`.

**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): R6-punct-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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