Growing, skin, hair and food, sentence 3
Body myths spread because something looks true: veins look blue, so "blood is blue"; stubble feels rough, so "shaving makes hair thicker"; skin shrinks after death, so "hair keeps growing".
Who acts: Body myths, something, veins, blood, stubble, shaving · What happens: spread, look, be, feel, make, shrink
This is a sentence of the lesson «Growing, skin, hair and food» of the myths 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 (Body myths, something, veins, blood), 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 | Body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 myths | compound |
| 2 | myths | myth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spread | nsubj |
| 3 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 looks | mark |
| 5 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 looks | nsubj |
| 6 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 spread | advcl |
| 7 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 looks | xcomp |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 look | punct |
| 9 | veins | vein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 look | nsubj |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 looks | conj |
| 11 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 look | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 blue | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 blue | advmod |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 so | punct |
| 15 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 blue | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 blue | cop |
| 17 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spread | parataxis |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 blue | punct |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 feels | punct |
| 20 | stubble | stubble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 feels | nsubj |
| 21 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 spread | conj |
| 22 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 feels | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 makes | punct |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 makes | advmod |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 makes | punct |
| 26 | shaving | shave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 makes | nsubj |
| 27 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 spread | conj |
| 28 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 thicker | nsubj |
| 29 | thicker | thick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 makes | xcomp |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 makes | punct |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 shrinks | punct |
| 32 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 shrinks | nsubj |
| 33 | shrinks | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 spread | conj |
| 34 | after | after | ADP | _ | 35 death | case |
| 35 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 shrinks | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 keeps | punct |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 40 keeps | advmod |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 keeps | punct |
| 39 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 keeps | nsubj |
| 40 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 spread | conj |
| 41 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 keeps | xcomp |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 keeps | punct |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | present | Body myths | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look | present | something | true property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | look | present | veins | blue property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | blood | blue property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | feel | present | stubble | rough property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | make in a quote | present | shaving | thick property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 7 | shrink | present | skin | after death | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 8 | keep in a quote | present | hair | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | grow in a quote | gerund | hair not said here | 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:myths:006-growing-skin-hair-and-food.lesson:3.
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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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