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title: Athlete's foot is a fungus that grows in warm, damp skin, so drying… — Washing your body and caring for your hair · tree and pragmatics
description: Athlete's foot is a fungus that grows in warm, damp skin, so drying between your toes after washing helps stop it. Who acts: foot, fungus. A sentence of the lesson «Washing your body and caring for your hair» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Washing your body and caring for your hair, sentence 20

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Athlete's foot is a fungus that grows in warm, damp skin, so drying between your toes after washing helps stop it.

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**Who acts:** foot, fungus · **What happens:** be, grow, dry, wash, help, stop · **To what, where:** fungus, warm damp skin

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Washing your body and caring for your hair» 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 (foot, fungus), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:076-washing-your-body-and-hair.lesson:20
# text = Athlete's foot is a fungus that grows in warm, damp skin, so drying between your toes after washing helps stop it.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 076-washing-your-body-and-hair.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	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	in	in	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	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
16	drying	dry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	nsubj	_	_
17	between	between	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	washing	wash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
22	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **is a** | present | Athlete's foot | a fungus |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | present | a fungus |  |  | warm damp skin |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in skin=Location |
| 3 | **dry** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | between your toes | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **wash** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **help** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **stop** | infinitive |  | fungus |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality |

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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): 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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