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title: Athlete's foot is a fungus that grows on warm, damp skin, often betw… — Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast · tree and pragmatics
description: Athlete's foot is a fungus that grows on warm, damp skin, often between the toes; drying feet well and wearing flip-flops at the pool help keep it away. Who acts: foot, fungus, drying. A sentence of the lesson «Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with it
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# Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast, sentence 16

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Athlete's foot is a fungus that grows on warm, damp skin, often between the toes; drying feet well and wearing flip-flops at the pool help keep it away.

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**Who acts:** foot, fungus, drying · **What happens:** be, grow, dry, wear, help, keep away · **To what, where:** fungus, warm damp skin, feet, flip flops, pool, foot

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fungi: mushrooms, mould and yeast» 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 (foot, fungus, drying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:062-fungi-mushrooms-mould-and-yeast.lesson:16
# text = Athlete's foot is a fungus that grows on warm, damp skin, often between the toes; drying feet well and wearing flip-flops at the pool help keep it away.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 062-fungi-mushrooms-mould-and-yeast.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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Athlete	athlete	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fungus	fungus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	damp	damp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	often	often	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	between	between	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
20	drying	dry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:nsubj
21	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	conj	_	_
25	flip	flip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	_
27	flops	flop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
31	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
32	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	away	away	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Athlete's foot | a fungus |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | present | a fungus |  |  | warm damp skin |  | between the toes | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on skin=Location |
| 3 | **dry** | gerund |  | feet |  |  |  | well *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient foot=Result |
| 4 | **wear** | gerund |  | flip flops |  | the pool |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent flop=Source |
| 5 | **help** | present | drying |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **keep away** | infinitive | drying *not said here* | foot |  |  |  | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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