--- title: Dirt and germs collect under nails, so nails are kept short and clea… — Hair, nails and ears · tree and pragmatics description: Dirt and germs collect under nails, so nails are kept short and clean; fingernails are cut following their curve and toenails straight across, so they do not grow into the skin. Who acts: Dirt, fingernails. A sentence of the lesson «Hair, nails and ears» of the everyday course of Mova's primary scho --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/77-hair-nails-and-ears/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Hair, nails and ears](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/77-hair-nails-and-ears/) / 2 # Hair, nails and ears, sentence 2 Dirt and germs collect under nails, so nails are kept short and clean; fingernails are cut following their curve and toenails straight across, so they do not grow into the skin. **Who acts:** Dirt, fingernails · **What happens:** collect, keep, cut, follow, not grow · **To what, where:** nails, fingernails, curve, skin This is a sentence of the lesson «Hair, nails and ears» 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 (Dirt, fingernails), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:077-hair-nails-and-ears.lesson:2 # text = Dirt and germs collect under nails, so nails are kept short and clean; fingernails are cut following their curve and toenails straight across, so they do not grow into the skin. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 077-hair-nails-and-ears.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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 Dirt dirt NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 germs germ NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 collect collect VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 under under ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 nails nail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 9 nails nail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 kept keep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 12 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 16 fingernails fingernail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 19 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 advcl _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 curve curve NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 toenails toenail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 24 straight straight ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 across across ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 32 into into ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **collect** | present | Dirt and germs | | | nails | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **keep** | present · passive | | nails | | | | short *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **cut** | present · passive | | fingernails | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 4 | **follow** | gerund | | nails's curve and toenails | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curve=Theme | | 5 | **not** **grow** | present · do-support | fingernails *= fingernail* | | | | | into the skin *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into skin=Result | 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:077-hair-nails-and-ears.lesson:2`. **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): R3-conj-first ×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: [Hair, nails and ears, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/77-hair-nails-and-ears/1/) - next →: [Hair, nails and ears, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/77-hair-nails-and-ears/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/77-hair-nails-and-ears/)