Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby to grown-up, sentence 2

The parts you cut, hair and nails, are not alive, which is why the barber's scissors and Sunday nail clippers never hurt; the living part hides in the skin, out of reach.

Who acts: you, parts, scissors, living part · What happens: cut, not be, be, not hurt, hide · To what, where: hair, skin

This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby to grown-up» 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, parts, scissors, living part), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

narrator

polarity

none

teacher

kept the draft

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.

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