Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eyelashes and going grey, sentence 7
The hair you see is dead keratin, the same material as nails; only the root under the skin is alive, and shaving does not make hair grow back thicker.
Who acts: you, hair, root, shaving · What happens: see, be, not make, not grow · To what, where: hair, dead keratin
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 (you, hair, root, shaving), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hair | det |
| 2 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keratin | nsubj |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 hair | acl:relcl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 keratin | cop |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 keratin | amod |
| 7 | keratin | keratin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 alive | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 material | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 material | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 material | amod |
| 11 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keratin | appos |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 nails | case |
| 13 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 material | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 root | punct |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 root | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 root | det |
| 17 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 alive | nsubj |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 skin | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 skin | det |
| 20 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 root | nmod |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 alive | cop |
| 22 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 make | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 make | cc |
| 25 | shaving | shave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 make | nsubj |
| 26 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 make | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 make | advmod |
| 28 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 alive | conj |
| 29 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 make | obj |
| 30 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 make | xcomp |
| 31 | back | back | ADV | _ | 32 thicker | advmod |
| 32 | thicker | thick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 grow | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 keratin | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | you | the hair not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hair=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the hair | dead keratin | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the root under the skin | alive property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not make | present · do-support | shaving | hair | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not grow | infinitive | hair not said here | thick property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:7.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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