--- title: Rubbing a balloon on dry hair moves tiny electric charges, and each… — Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eye… · tree and pragmatics description: Rubbing a balloon on dry hair moves tiny electric charges, and each hair pushes away from the others; this is static, and it works best in dry winter air. Who acts: this, hair. 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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 (this, hair), 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:16 # text = Rubbing a balloon on dry hair moves tiny electric charges, and each hair pushes away from the others; this is static, and it works best in dry winter air. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Rubbing rub VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 balloon balloon NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 on on SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nsubj 7 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 8 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 charges charge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 16 away away ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 21 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 23 static static ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 works work VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 28 best well ADV RBS Degree=Sup 27 advmod _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rub** | gerund | this *not said here* | a balloon | | | | dry hair *obl* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent balloon=Theme | | 2 | **move** | present | this *not said here* | tiny electric charges | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent charge=Theme | | 3 | **push away** | present | each hair | | | | | from the others; away *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from other=Co-Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | this | | | | | static *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **work** | present | hair | | | | | in dry winter air; well *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in air=Theme | 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:16`. **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, R6-punct-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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