Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eyelashes and going grey, sentence 3

Hair colour comes from melanin made in the root; when the colour cells slow down and stop, new hairs grow in white, and a head of white and dark hairs mixed looks grey.

Who acts: Hair colour, colour cells, new hairs, head · What happens: come, make, slow down, stop, grow, mix · To what, where: melanin, root, white, white hairs

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 colour, colour cells, new hairs, head), 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	Hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 colour	compound
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	nsubj
3	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 melanin	case
5	melanin	melanin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comes	obl
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 melanin	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 root	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 root	det
9	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 slow	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 slow	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cells	det
13	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cells	compound
14	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 slow	nsubj
15	slow	slow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 grow	advcl
16	down	down	ADP	_	15 slow	compound:prt
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 stop	cc
18	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 slow	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 grow	punct
20	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hairs	amod
21	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 grow	nsubj
22	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 comes	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 white	case
24	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 grow	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 looks	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 looks	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 head	det
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 looks	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	33 hairs	case
30	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 hairs	amod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 dark	cc
32	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 white	conj
33	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 head	nmod
34	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 hairs	acl
35	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 grow	conj
36	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 looks	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 comes	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present	Hair colour		melanin		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from melanin=Initial_Location
2	make	participle		melanin not said here	the root		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	slow down	present	the colour cells				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	stop	present	the colour cells not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	grow	present	new hairs		white		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in white=Location
6	mix	participle		white hairs not said here			vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
7	look	present	a head of white hairs			grey property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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:3.

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, R8-pos-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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