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title: People have twenty nails, ten on the fingers and ten on the toes; bi… — Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits an… · tree and pragmatics
description: People have twenty nails, ten on the fingers and ten on the toes; biting nails carries germs from the hands to the mouth. Who acts: People, biting. 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 dependen
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# Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits and bad breath, sentence 8

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People have twenty nails, ten on the fingers and ten on the toes; biting nails carries germs from the hands to the mouth.

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**Who acts:** People, biting · **What happens:** have, bite, carry · **To what, where:** twenty nails, nails, germs, hands

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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, biting), 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:8
# text = People have twenty nails, ten on the fingers and ten on the toes; biting nails carries germs from the hands to the mouth.
# 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
1	People	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	nails	nail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
6	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	appos	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	biting	bite	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	csubj	_	_
17	nails	nail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
19	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | People | twenty nails |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Patient |
| 2 | **bite** | gerund |  | nails |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Patient |
| 3 | **carry** | present | biting | germs |  | the hands |  | to the mouth | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent germ=Theme from hand=Initial\_Location to mouth=Destination |

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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. **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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