Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eyelashes and going grey, sentence 14

The story of hair turning white overnight from a fright is doubted by scientists, because the hair already grown is dead and cannot change colour from inside.

Who acts: hair, scientists · What happens: turn, doubt, grow, be, not change · To what, where: fright, story, hair, colour

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, scientists), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 doubted	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 hair	case
4	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 story	nmod
5	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 hair	acl
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 turning	xcomp
7	overnight	overnight	ADV	_	5 turning	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 fright	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fright	det
10	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turning	obl
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 doubted	aux:pass
12	doubted	doubt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 scientists	case
14	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 doubted	obl:agent
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dead	punct
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 dead	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hair	det
18	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dead	nsubj
19	already	already	ADV	_	20 grown	advmod
20	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 hair	acl
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 dead	cop
22	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 doubted	advcl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 change	cc
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 change	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 change	advmod
26	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 doubted	conj
27	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 change	obj
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 inside	case
29	inside	inside	ADV	_	26 change	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 doubted	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: neg
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	gerund	hair not said here		a fright	overnight, white property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from fright=Trajectory
2	doubt	present · passive	scientists	the story of hair			vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
3	grow	participle		the hair not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	the hair			dead property	tree rules
5	not change	can	scientists not said here	colour			vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent colour=Patient from inside=Initial_State

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: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): 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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