---
title: Each hair grows from a tiny pocket in the skin called a follicle; on… — Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eye… · tree and pragmatics
description: Each hair grows from a tiny pocket in the skin called a follicle; only the root down in the follicle is alive, and the strand you see is dead keratin, the same stuff as your nails. Who acts: hair, tiny pocket, root, you. A sentence of the lesson «Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eyelashe
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/355-hair-growing-curly-and-straight-eyebrows-eyelashes-and-going-grey/0/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Hair: growing, curly and straight, eye…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/355-hair-growing-curly-and-straight-eyebrows-eyelashes-and-going-grey/) / 0

# Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eyelashes and going grey, sentence 0

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Each hair grows from a tiny pocket in the skin called a follicle; only the root down in the follicle is alive, and the strand you see is dead keratin, the same stuff as your nails.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** hair, tiny pocket, root, you, strand · **What happens:** grow, call, be, see · **To what, where:** follicle, strand, dead keratin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of the lesson «Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eyelashes and going grey» of the biology 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, tiny pocket, root, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:355-hair-growing-curly-and-straight-eyebrows-eyelashes-and-going-grey.lesson:0
# text = Each hair grows from a tiny pocket in the skin called a follicle; only the root down in the follicle is alive, and the strand you see is dead keratin, the same stuff as your nails.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 355-hair-growing-curly-and-straight-eyebrows-eyelashes-and-going-grey.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
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	acl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	follicle	follicle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
18	down	down	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	follicle	follicle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	strand	strand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	keratin	keratin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:conj
37	as	as	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	nails	nail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- sa -->
- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | each hair |  |  |  |  | from a tiny pocket in the skin | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from pocket=Patient |
| 2 | **call** | participle | a tiny pocket in the skin *not said here* | a follicle |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent follicle=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | present | the root |  |  |  |  | alive *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | present | you | the strand *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer strand=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is a** | present | the strand | dead keratin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:355-hair-growing-curly-and-straight-eyebrows-eyelashes-and-going-grey.lesson:0`.

**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. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Skin: fingerprints, scabs, scars, brui…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/354-skin-fingerprints-scabs-scars-bruises-and-blisters/16/)
- next →: [Hair: growing, curly and straight, eye…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/355-hair-growing-curly-and-straight-eyebrows-eyelashes-and-going-grey/1/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/355-hair-growing-curly-and-straight-eyebrows-eyelashes-and-going-grey/)