Hair, nails and ears, sentence 1
Long loose hair can catch in moving machines or a flame, so it is tied back near them; and cutting hair does not make it grow back thicker, the cut end only looks blunter.
Who acts: Long loose hair, cutting, flame, cut end · What happens: catch, move, tie back, cut, not make, not grow back · To what, where: moving machines, flame, hair
This is a sentence of the lesson «Hair, nails and ears» of the everyday 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 (Long loose hair, cutting, flame, cut end), 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 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hair | amod |
| 2 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hair | amod |
| 3 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 catch | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 catch | aux |
| 5 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 machines | case |
| 7 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 machines | amod |
| 8 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 catch | obl |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 flame | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 flame | det |
| 11 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 machines | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tied | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 tied | advmod |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 tied | aux:pass |
| 16 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 catch | parataxis |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 tied | advmod |
| 18 | near | near | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 tied | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 make | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 make | cc |
| 22 | cutting | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 make | csubj |
| 23 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cutting | obj |
| 24 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 make | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 make | advmod |
| 26 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 catch | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 make | obj |
| 28 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 make | xcomp |
| 29 | back | back | ADV | _ | 28 grow | advmod |
| 30 | thicker | thick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 28 grow | xcomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 looks | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 end | det |
| 33 | cut | cut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 end | compound |
| 34 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 looks | nsubj |
| 35 | only | only | ADV | _ | 36 looks | advmod |
| 36 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 catch | conj |
| 37 | blunter | blunt | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 36 looks | xcomp |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 catch | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | can | Long loose hair | moving machines or a flame | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | move | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | tie back | present · passive | flame | near Hair | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | cut | gerund | hair | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hair=Product | |||||
| 5 | not make | present · do-support | cutting | flame | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not grow back | infinitive | flame not said here | thick property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | look | present | the cut end | blunt property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:everyday:077-hair-nails-and-ears.lesson:1.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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