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title: Nails are kept short and clean, and dirt is scrubbed from under them… — Hair, nails and ears · tree and pragmatics
description: Nails are kept short and clean, and dirt is scrubbed from under them, because germs collect there. Who acts: nails, germs. A sentence of the lesson «Hair, nails and ears» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hair, nails and ears, sentence 7

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Nails are kept short and clean, and dirt is scrubbed from under them, because germs collect there.

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**Who acts:** nails, germs · **What happens:** keep, scrub, collect · **To what, where:** Nails, dirt

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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 (nails, germs), 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:7
# text = Nails are kept short and clean, and dirt is scrubbed from under them, because germs collect there.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Nails	nail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	dirt	dirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	scrubbed	scrub	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	under	under	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl:agent	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	collect	collect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:advcl
19	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
20	.	.	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 | **keep** | present · passive |  | Nails |  |  |  | short *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **scrub** | present · passive | nails *= nail* | dirt |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent subject=Source |
| 3 | **collect** | present | germs |  |  | there |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:077-hair-nails-and-ears.lesson:7`.

**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 ×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/).

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