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title: A pair of feet has about 250,000 sweat glands; bacteria eat the swea… — Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits an… · tree and pragmatics
description: A pair of feet has about 250,000 sweat glands; bacteria eat the sweat and make cheesy smells, and warm, dark shoes help them grow. Who acts: pair, bacteria, warm dark shoes, smells. A sentence of the lesson «Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits and bad breath» of the biology course of Mova'
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# Nails, sweat and smells: smelly feet, armpits and bad breath, sentence 9

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A pair of feet has about 250,000 sweat glands; bacteria eat the sweat and make cheesy smells, and warm, dark shoes help them grow.

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**Who acts:** pair, bacteria, warm dark shoes, smells · **What happens:** have, eat, make, help, grow · **To what, where:** 250,000 sweat glands, sweat, cheesy smells, smells

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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 (pair, bacteria, warm dark shoes, smells), 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:9
# text = A pair of feet has about 250,000 sweat glands; bacteria eat the sweat and make cheesy smells, and warm, dark shoes help them grow.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	about	about	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	250,000	250,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	sweat	sweat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	glands	gland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sweat	sweat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
17	cheesy	cheesy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	smells	smell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	parataxis	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	.	.	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 | **have** | present | a pair of feet | 250,000 sweat glands |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gland=Patient |
| 2 | **eat** | present | bacteria | the sweat |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweat=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | present | bacteria *not said here* | cheesy smells |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset smell=Product |
| 4 | **help** | infinitive | warm dark shoes | smells *= smell* |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 5 | **grow** | infinitive | smells *= smell* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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, R8-pos-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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