--- title: Hair colour comes from melanin made in the root; when the colour cel… — Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eye… · tree and pragmatics description: Hair colour comes from melanin made in the root; when the colour cells slow down and stop, new hairs grow in white, and a head of white and dark hairs mixed looks grey. Who acts: Hair colour, colour cells, new hairs, head. 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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 (Hair colour, colour cells, new hairs, head), 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:3 # text = Hair colour comes from melanin made in the root; when the colour cells slow down and stop, new hairs grow in white, and a head of white and dark hairs mixed looks grey. # 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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 melanin melanin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 root root NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 15 advmod _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 slow slow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 16 down down ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 stop stop VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 30 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 conj _ _ 33 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 34 mixed mix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 acl _ _ 35 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 36 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | Hair colour | | | melanin | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from melanin=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **make** | participle | | melanin *not said here* | | the root | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **slow down** | present | the colour cells | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **stop** | present | the colour cells *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **grow** | present | new hairs | | | white | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in white=Location | | 6 | **mix** | participle | | white hairs *not said here* | | | | | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **look** | present | a head of white hairs | | | | | grey *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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:3`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-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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