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title: Some cancer treatments make hair fall out because they attack fast-g… — Hospitals, operations and serious illness · tree and pragmatics
description: Some cancer treatments make hair fall out because they attack fast-growing cells; the hair usually grows back after treatment. Who acts: cancer treatments, hair, people. A sentence of the lesson «Hospitals, operations and serious illness» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Hospitals, operations and serious illness, sentence 14

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Some cancer treatments make hair fall out because they attack fast-growing cells; the hair usually grows back after treatment.

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**Who acts:** cancer treatments, hair, people · **What happens:** make, fall out, attack, grow, grow back · **To what, where:** hair, growing cells

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hospitals, operations and serious illness» of the adult life 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 (cancer treatments, hair, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:021-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness.lesson:14
# text = Some cancer treatments make hair fall out because they attack fast-growing cells; the hair usually grows back after treatment.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 021-hospitals-operations-and-serious-illness.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	cancer	cancer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	treatments	treatment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	attack	attack	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advcl
11	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	_
13	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:_
14	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
20	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	after	after	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | some cancer treatments | hair |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall out** | infinitive | hair *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **attack** | present | people | growing cells |  |  |  |  | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Patient |
| 4 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **grow back** | present | the hair |  |  |  | after treatment | usually *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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.

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