--- title: Biting nails puts germs from under them into the mouth, and torn, bl… — Teeth, nails, baths and toilets · tree and pragmatics description: Biting nails puts germs from under them into the mouth, and torn, bleeding skin round a nail can get infected, so tell a grown-up if it bleeds. Who acts: Biting, skin. 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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 (Biting, skin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets.lesson:15 # text = Biting nails puts germs from under them into the mouth, and torn, bleeding skin round a nail can get infected, so tell a grown-up if it bleeds. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets.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 ×5, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Biting bite VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 csubj _ _ 2 nails nail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 obj _ _ 3 puts put VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 under under ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nmod _ _ 8 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 torn tear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 bleeding bleed VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 16 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obj 17 round round ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 nail nail NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:obl 20 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:aux 21 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 22 infected infected ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:xcomp 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 grown grown-up NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ _ 29 up up ADP RP _ 27 compound _ _ 30 if if SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 bleeds bleed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:advcl 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bite** | gerund | | nails | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Patient | | 2 | **put** | present | Biting | germs | | the mouth | | from germs *= germ* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent germ=Goal | | 3 | **tear** | participle | Biting *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **bleed** | gerund | Biting *not said here* | | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | | 5 | **get** | infinitive | Biting *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | a grown | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grown-up=Recipient | | 7 | **bleed** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | skin | | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | 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:everyday:208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets.lesson:15`. **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 ×5, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Teeth, nails, baths and toilets, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets/13/) - next →: [Teeth, nails, baths and toilets, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/208-teeth-nails-baths-and-toilets/)