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title: The shape of the follicle decides the shape of the hair: a round one… — Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eye… · tree and pragmatics
description: The shape of the follicle decides the shape of the hair: a round one grows straight hair, a flat or oval one grows curly hair, the way a round or a flat nozzle shapes icing. Who acts: shape, round one, flat one, round nozzle. A sentence of the lesson «Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eye
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# Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eyelashes and going grey, sentence 2

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The shape of the follicle decides the shape of the hair: a round one grows straight hair, a flat or oval one grows curly hair, the way a round or a flat nozzle shapes icing.

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**Who acts:** shape, round one, flat one, round nozzle · **What happens:** decide, grow, shape · **To what, where:** shape, straight hair, curly hair, icing

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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 (shape, round one, flat one, round nozzle), 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:2
# text = The shape of the follicle decides the shape of the hair: a round one grows straight hair, a flat or oval one grows curly hair, the way a round or a flat nozzle shapes icing.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	follicle	follicle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	decides	decide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
17	straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	oval	oval	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	curly	curly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=32:punct
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
32	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	_
36	nozzle	nozzle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	shapes	shape	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
38	icing	icing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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 | **decide** | present | the shape of the follicle | the shape of the hair |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent shape=Topic |
| 2 | **grow** | present | a round one | straight hair |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hair=Theme |
| 3 | **grow** | present | a flat one | curly hair |  |  |  | the way *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hair=Theme |
| 4 | **shape** | present | a round nozzle | icing |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset icing=Product |

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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:2`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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