Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eyelashes and going grey, sentence 1

That is why a haircut does not hurt but having your hair pulled does: the scissors cut dead strands, while pulling tugs on a living root full of nerves.

Who acts: That, haircut, hair, having, scissors, pulling · What happens: be, not hurt, have, pull, do, cut · To what, where: hair, dead strands

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 (That, haircut, hair, having), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 why	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 why	cop
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 haircut	det
5	haircut	haircut	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hurt	nsubj
6	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hurt	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 hurt	advmod
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 why	advcl:relcl
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 does	cc
10	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 does	csubj
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hair	nmod:poss
12	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 having	obj
13	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 having	xcomp
14	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hurt	conj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 cut	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 scissors	det
17	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 cut	nsubj
18	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 does	conj
19	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 strands	amod
20	strands	strand	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 cut	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tugs	punct
22	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 pulling	mark
23	pulling	pull	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tugs	nsubj
24	tugs	tug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 cut	advcl
25	on	on	ADP	_	28 root	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 root	det
27	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 root	compound
28	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tugs	obl
29	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 root	amod
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 nerves	case
31	nerves	nerve	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 full	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	That		why property	tree rules
2	not hurt	present · do-support	a haircut			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	have	gerund		your hair		tree rules
4	pull	participle	your hair not said here			vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	do	present	having			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	cut	present	the scissors	dead strands		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset strand=Product
7	tug	present	pulling		on a living root	vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on root=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:biology:355-hair-growing-curly-and-straight-eyebrows-eyelashes-and-going-grey.lesson:1.

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 ×2, 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.

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