Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eyelashes and going grey, sentence 16

Rubbing a balloon on dry hair moves tiny electric charges, and each hair pushes away from the others; this is static, and it works best in dry winter air.

Who acts: this, hair · What happens: rub, move, push away, be, work · To what, where: balloon, tiny electric charges

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 (this, hair), 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	Rubbing	rub	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 static	advcl
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 balloon	det
3	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rubbing	obj
4	on	on	SCONJ	_	7 moves	mark
5	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hair	amod
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rubbing	obl
7	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Rubbing	advcl
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 charges	amod
9	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 charges	amod
10	charges	charge	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 moves	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pushes	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 pushes	cc
13	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 hair	det
14	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pushes	nsubj
15	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 moves	conj
16	away	away	ADV	_	15 pushes	advmod
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 others	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 others	det
19	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 pushes	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	1 Rubbing	punct
21	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 static	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 static	cop
23	static	static	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 works	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 works	cc
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 works	nsubj
27	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 static	conj
28	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	27 works	advmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 air	case
30	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 air	amod
31	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 air	compound
32	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 works	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 static	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	rub	gerund	this not said here	a balloon	dry hair obl	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent balloon=Theme
2	move	present	this not said here	tiny electric charges		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent charge=Theme
3	push away	present	each hair		from the others; away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from other=Co-Patient
4	is	present	this		static property	tree rules
5	work	present	hair		in dry winter air; well property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in air=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:16.

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, R6-punct-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.

See the release 0.4.

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