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title: Fingernails are cut following their curve, toenails straight across,… — Teeth, nails, baths and toilets · tree and pragmatics
description: Fingernails are cut following their curve, toenails straight across, so the corners do not grow into the skin. Who acts: corners. A sentence of the lesson «Teeth, nails, baths and toilets» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Teeth, nails, baths and toilets, sentence 4

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Fingernails are cut following their curve, toenails straight across, so the corners do not grow into the skin.

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**Who acts:** corners · **What happens:** cut, follow, not grow · **To what, where:** Fingernails, curve, skin

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Teeth, nails, baths and toilets» of the everyday 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 (corners), 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:4
# text = Fingernails are cut following their curve, toenails straight across, so the corners do not grow into the skin.
# 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): no change
1	Fingernails	fingernail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	curve	curve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	toenails	toenail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	across	across	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	corners	corner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
15	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **cut** | present · passive |  | Fingernails |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  | Fingernails's curve and toenails |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curve=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **grow** | present · do-support | the corners |  |  |  |  | into the skin *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into skin=Result |

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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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**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:4`.

**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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