Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eyelashes and going grey, sentence 15

Fine hair covers almost all the body except the palms, the soles and the lips, and helps you feel touch, like an insect landing; babies before birth are covered in fine hair that is lost before or soon after birth.

Who acts: Fine hair, you · What happens: cover, help, feel, lose · To what, where: body, touch, babies, fine hair

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 (Fine hair, 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	Fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hair	amod
2	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 covers	nsubj
3	covers	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 all	advmod
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 body	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 body	det
7	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 covers	obj
8	except	except	ADP	_	10 palms	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 palms	det
10	palms	palm	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 body	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 soles	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 soles	det
13	soles	sole	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 palms	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 lips	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lips	det
16	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 palms	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 helps	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 helps	cc
19	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 covers	conj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 feel	nsubj
21	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 helps	xcomp
22	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 feel	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 landing	punct
24	like	like	ADP	_	27 landing	case
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 landing	det
26	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 landing	compound
27	landing	landing	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 touch	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 covered	punct
29	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 covered	nsubj:pass
30	before	before	ADP	_	31 birth	case
31	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 babies	nmod
32	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 covered	aux:pass
33	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 covers	parataxis
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 hair	case
35	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 hair	amod
36	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 covered	obl
37	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 lost	nsubj:pass
38	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 lost	aux:pass
39	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 hair	acl:relcl
40	before	before	ADP	_	44 birth	case
41	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 after	cc
42	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	43 after	advmod
43	after	after	ADP	_	40 before	conj
44	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 lost	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 covers	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cover	present	Fine hair	all body		except the palms and the soles and the lips	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme body=Destination
2	help	present	Fine hair not said here				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	feel	infinitive	you	touch		like a insect landing	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent touch=Theme
4	cover	present · passive		babies before birth		in fine hair	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in hair=Theme
5	lose	present · passive		fine hair	before birth		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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:15.

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): R2-punct-next ×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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