--- title: Fingernails grow about three millimetres a month and toenails more s… — Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits an… · tree and pragmatics description: Fingernails grow about three millimetres a month and toenails more slowly; a whole fingernail takes about six months to grow out and a toenail a year or more. Who acts: Fingernails, whole fingernail. 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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 (Fingernails, whole fingernail), 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:5 # text = Fingernails grow about three millimetres a month and toenails more slowly; a whole fingernail takes about six months to grow out and a toenail a year or more. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Fingernails fingernail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 about about ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 4 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 millimetres millimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:unmarked _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 toenails toenail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 10 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 2 advmod _ _ 11 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 fingernail fingernail NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 17 about about ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:acl 22 out out ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=21:cc 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 toenail toenail NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 conj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | present | Fingernails | three millimetres a month and toenails | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **take** | present | a whole fingernail | | | | month | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **grow out** | to-infinitive | a whole fingernail *not said here* | | | | year | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:5`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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