Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eyelashes and going grey, sentence 4

A head has about 100,000 hairs; blondes often have more and redheads fewer, and losing about 50 to 100 hairs a day is normal.

Who acts: head, blondes, losing · What happens: have, lose, be · To what, where: 100,000 hairs, more, 50

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 (head, blondes, losing), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 head	det
2	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 100,000	advmod
5	100,000	100000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 hairs	nummod
6	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct
8	blondes	blonde	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 have	nsubj
9	often	often	ADV	_	10 have	advmod
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	parataxis
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 have	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fewer	cc
13	redheads	redhead	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 fewer	nsubj
14	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 more	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 normal	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 losing	cc
17	losing	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 normal	csubj
18	about	about	ADV	_	19 50	advmod
19	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 losing	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 100	case
21	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 hairs	nummod
22	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 losing	obj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 day	det
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 losing	obl:unmarked
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 normal	cop
26	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 has	parataxis
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	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	have	present	a head	100,000 hairs			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
2	have	present	blondes	more		often property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient
3	lose	gerund		50	day		tree rules
4	is	present	losing			normal property	tree rules

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:4.

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, 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.

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