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title: Fine hair covers almost all the body except the palms, the soles and… — Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eye… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fine hair covers almost all the body except the palms, the soles and the lips, and helps you feel touch, like an insect landing; babies before birth are covered in fine hair that is lost before or soon after birth. Who acts: Fine hair, you. A sentence of the lesson «Hair: growing, curly and straight
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# Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eyelashes and going grey, sentence 15

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Fine hair covers almost all the body except the palms, the soles and the lips, and helps you feel touch, like an insect landing; babies before birth are covered in fine hair that is lost before or soon after birth.

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**Who acts:** Fine hair, you · **What happens:** cover, help, feel, lose · **To what, where:** body, touch, babies, fine hair

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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 (Fine hair, 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:15
# text = Fine hair covers almost all the body except the palms, the soles and the lips, and helps you feel touch, like an insect landing; babies before birth are covered in fine hair that is lost before or soon after birth.
# 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	covers	cover	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	except	except	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	palms	palm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	soles	sole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
22	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	insect	insect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	landing	landing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
29	babies	baby	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	before	before	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl:relcl	_	_
40	before	before	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	43	advmod	_	_
43	after	after	ADP	IN	_	40	conj	_	_
44	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | present | Fine hair | all body |  |  |  | except the palms and the soles and the lips | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme body=Destination |
| 2 | **help** | present | Fine hair *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **feel** | infinitive | you | touch |  |  |  | like a insect landing | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent touch=Theme |
| 4 | **cover** | present · passive |  | babies before birth |  |  |  | in fine hair | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in hair=Theme |
| 5 | **lose** | present · passive |  | fine hair |  |  | before birth |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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**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:15`.

**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, 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/).

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