Hospitals, operations and serious illness, sentence 14
Some cancer treatments make hair fall out because they attack fast-growing cells; the hair usually grows back after treatment.
Who acts: cancer treatments, hair, people · What happens: make, fall out, attack, grow, grow back · To what, where: hair, growing cells
This is a sentence of the lesson «Hospitals, operations and serious illness» of the adult life 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 (cancer treatments, hair, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 treatments | det |
| 2 | cancer | cancer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 treatments | compound |
| 3 | treatments | treatment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 make | nsubj |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 6 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 make | xcomp |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 fall | compound:prt |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 attack | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 attack | nsubj |
| 10 | attack | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | advcl |
| 11 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 growing | advmod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 growing | punct |
| 13 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 cells | amod |
| 14 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 attack | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 grows | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hair | det |
| 17 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 grows | nsubj |
| 18 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 19 grows | advmod |
| 19 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | parataxis |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 grows | advmod |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 treatment | case |
| 22 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 grows | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | some cancer treatments | hair | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall out | infinitive | hair not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | attack | present | people | growing cells | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Patient | ||||
| 4 | grow | gerund | fast property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | grow back | present | the hair | after treatment | usually property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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, 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:adult-life:021-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness.lesson:14.
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 ×2, R8-pos-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.
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