Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eyelashes and going grey, sentence 5

Hair grows about one centimetre a month; each hair grows for years, then rests and falls out, and a new one grows from the same follicle.

Who acts: Hair, new one · What happens: grow, rest, fall out

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, new one), 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 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	5 centimetre	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 centimetre	nummod
5	centimetre	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grows	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 month	det
7	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grows	obl:unmarked
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 grows	punct
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 hair	det
10	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grows	nsubj
11	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 grows	parataxis
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 years	case
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 grows	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rests	punct
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 rests	advmod
16	rests	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 grows	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 falls	cc
18	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 rests	conj
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 falls	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 grows	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 grows	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 one	det
23	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 one	amod
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 grows	nsubj
25	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 grows	conj
26	from	from	ADP	_	29 follicle	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 follicle	det
28	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 follicle	amod
29	follicle	follicle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 grows	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grows	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Hair	month	about one centimetre	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about centimetre=Location
2	grow	present	each hair	year		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	rest	present	each hair not said here	then		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fall out	present	each hair not said here			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	grow	present	a new one		from the same follicle	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from follicle=Patient

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:5.

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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