Growing, skin, hair and food, sentence 8
Shaving does not change how thick, dark or fast hair grows; cut hair just has a blunt tip that feels coarser.
Who acts: hair, cut hair, blunt tip · What happens: shave, not change, grow, have, feel · To what, where: blunt tip
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 (hair, cut hair, blunt tip), 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 | Shaving | shave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 change | advcl |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 change | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 change | advmod |
| 4 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 thick | advmod |
| 6 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 grows | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dark | punct |
| 8 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thick | conj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 fast | cc |
| 10 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thick | conj |
| 11 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grows | nsubj |
| 12 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 change | ccomp |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 has | punct |
| 14 | cut | cut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 hair | amod |
| 15 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 has | nsubj |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 has | advmod |
| 17 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 change | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 tip | det |
| 19 | blunt | blunt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tip | amod |
| 20 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 has | obj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 feels | nsubj |
| 22 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 tip | acl:relcl |
| 23 | coarser | coarse | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 feels | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 change | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shave | gerund | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not change | present · do-support | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | grow | present | hair | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | have | present | cut hair | a blunt tip | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tip=Patient | ||||
| 5 | feel | present | a blunt tip | coarse 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:myths:006-growing-skin-hair-and-food.lesson:8.
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): R7-rel-agree ×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.
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