Growing, skin, hair and food, sentence 9
Hair and nails do not grow after death; the skin dries and shrinks, so they only look longer.
Who acts: Hair, skin, nails · What happens: not grow, dry, shrink, look
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, skin, nails), 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 | Hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grow | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 nails | cc |
| 3 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Hair | conj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 grow | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 grow | advmod |
| 6 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 death | case |
| 8 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grow | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 dries | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 skin | det |
| 11 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dries | nsubj |
| 12 | dries | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 grow | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shrinks | cc |
| 14 | shrinks | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 dries | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 look | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 look | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 look | nsubj |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 look | advmod |
| 19 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 grow | conj |
| 20 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 look | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not grow | present · do-support | Hair and nails | after death | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dry | present | the skin | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | shrink | present | the skin not said here | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | look | present | nails = nail | long property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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:9.
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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