Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eyelashes and going grey, sentence 9

Eyebrows guide sweat and rain away from the eyes and help show feelings such as surprise or anger; each has a few hundred hairs.

Who acts: Eyebrows, each · What happens: guide, help, show, have · To what, where: sweat, eyes, feelings, few hundred 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 (Eyebrows, each), 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	Eyebrows	eyebrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 guide	nsubj
2	guide	guide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 guide	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 rain	cc
5	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sweat	conj
6	away	away	ADV	_	2 guide	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 eyes	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 eyes	det
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 guide	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 help	cc
11	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 guide	conj
12	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 help	xcomp
13	feelings	feeling	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 show	obj
14	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	16 surprise	case
15	as	as	ADP	_	14 such	fixed
16	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 feelings	nmod
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 anger	cc
18	anger	anger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 surprise	conj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 has	punct
20	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	21 has	nsubj
21	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 guide	parataxis
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 hairs	det
23	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 hairs	amod
24	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 hairs	nummod
25	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 has	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 guide	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	guide	present	Eyebrows	sweat and rain	the eyes	away property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sweat=Theme from eye=Destination
2	help	present	Eyebrows not said here				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	show	infinitive	Eyebrows not said here	feelings		such surprise or anger	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent feeling=Recipient
4	have	present	each	a few hundred hairs			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=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:9.

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): R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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