Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing moments, sentence 10

Hair grows back, usually about one centimetre a month; the first days after a big change in looks feel the worst, then people get used to it.

Who acts: Hair, first days · What happens: grow back, feel, use · To what, where: one centimetre, Hair

This is a sentence of the lesson «Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing moments» of the reflection 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, first days), 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	2 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 grows	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 centimetre	punct
5	usually	usually	ADV	_	8 centimetre	advmod
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 one	advmod
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 centimetre	nummod
8	centimetre	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grows	obl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 month	det
10	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 centimetre	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 feel	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 days	det
13	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 days	amod
14	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 feel	nsubj
15	after	after	ADP	_	18 change	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 change	det
17	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 change	amod
18	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 days	nmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 looks	case
20	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 change	nmod
21	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 grows	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 worst	det
23	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 feel	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 worst	punct
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 get	advmod
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 get	nsubj
27	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 used	aux:pass
28	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 feel	ccomp
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 used	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grows	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	grow back	present	Hair	one centimetre a month			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	feel	present	the first days after a big change in looks			bad property	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	use	infinitive · passive	the first days after a big change in looks not said here		Hair		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»

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:reflection:011-cringe-that-lasts-getting-over-embarrassing-moments.lesson:10.

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, R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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.

See the release 0.4.

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