--- title: Grey hair grows when colour cells in the roots stop making melanin,… — Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eye… · tree and pragmatics description: Grey hair grows when colour cells in the roots stop making melanin, and many people start to go grey in their thirties or forties. Who acts: Grey hair, colour cells, many people. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grey hair, colour cells, many people), 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:13 # text = Grey hair grows when colour cells in the roots stop making melanin, and many people start to go grey in their thirties or forties. # 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 1 Grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 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 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 5 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 11 making make VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 xcomp _ _ 12 melanin melanin NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 start start VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 thirties thirty NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:obl 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 forties forty NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow** | present | Grey hair | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **stop** | present | colour cells in the roots | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **make** | gerund | colour cells in the roots *not said here* | melanin | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset melanin=Product | | 4 | **start** | present | many people | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **go** | to-infinitive | many people *not said here* | | | people's thirties or forties | | grey *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in thirty=Location | 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](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:13`. **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. **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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