Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eyelashes and going grey, sentence 0

Each hair grows from a tiny pocket in the skin called a follicle; only the root down in the follicle is alive, and the strand you see is dead keratin, the same stuff as your nails.

Who acts: hair, tiny pocket, root, you, strand · What happens: grow, call, be, see · To what, where: follicle, strand, dead keratin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eyelashes and going grey» of the biology 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 (hair, tiny pocket, root, you), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 hair	det
2	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grows	nsubj
3	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 pocket	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pocket	det
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pocket	amod
7	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grows	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 skin	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 skin	det
10	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pocket	nmod
11	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 pocket	acl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 follicle	det
13	follicle	follicle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 called	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 root	punct
15	only	only	ADV	_	17 root	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 root	det
17	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 alive	nsubj
18	down	down	ADV	_	17 root	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 follicle	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 follicle	det
21	follicle	follicle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 root	obl
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 alive	cop
23	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grows	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 keratin	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 keratin	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 strand	det
27	strand	strand	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 keratin	nsubj
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 see	nsubj
29	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 strand	acl:relcl
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 keratin	cop
31	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 keratin	amod
32	keratin	keratin	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 alive	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 stuff	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 stuff	det
35	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 stuff	amod
36	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 keratin	appos
37	as	as	ADP	_	39 nails	case
38	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 nails	nmod:poss
39	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 stuff	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grows	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grow	present	each hair		from a tiny pocket in the skin	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from pocket=Patient
2	call	participle	a tiny pocket in the skin not said here	a follicle		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent follicle=Recipient
3	is	present	the root		alive property	tree rules
4	see	present	you	the strand not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer strand=Stimulus
5	is a	present	the strand	dead keratin		tree rules

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:biology:355-hair-growing-curly-and-straight-eyebrows-eyelashes-and-going-grey.lesson:0.

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. 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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