Hair, nails and ears, sentence 6
Cutting hair does not change how it grows; the cut end only looks blunter.
Who acts: Cutting, flame, cut end · What happens: cut, not change, grow, look · To what, where: 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 (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 | Cutting | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 change | csubj |
| 2 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cutting | obj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 change | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 change | advmod |
| 5 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 grows | advmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 grows | nsubj |
| 8 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 change | ccomp |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 looks | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 end | det |
| 11 | cut | cut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 end | amod |
| 12 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looks | nsubj |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 looks | advmod |
| 14 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 grows | conj |
| 15 | blunter | blunt | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 looks | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 change | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | gerund | hair | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hair=Product | |||||
| 2 | not change | present · do-support | Cutting | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | grow | present | flame | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | 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:6.
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): R2-punct-next ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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