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title: The white half-moon at the base of a nail, the lunula, is part of th… — Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits an… · tree and pragmatics
description: The white half-moon at the base of a nail, the lunula, is part of the nail root and is often biggest on the thumbs. Who acts: white half moon. 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 dependency tr
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# Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits and bad breath, sentence 7

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The white half-moon at the base of a nail, the lunula, is part of the nail root and is often biggest on the thumbs.

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**Who acts:** white half moon · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** part, thumbs

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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 (white half moon), 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:7
# text = The white half-moon at the base of a nail, the lunula, is part of the nail root and is often biggest on the thumbs.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	5	compound	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	_
5	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	lunula	lunula	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	often	often	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	conj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	thumbs	thumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	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 a** | present | the white half moon at the base of a nail | part |  |  |  | of the nail root | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the white half moon at the base of a nail *not said here* |  |  | the thumbs |  | big, often *property* | tree rules |

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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): 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.

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

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