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title: A head has about 100,000 hairs; blondes often have more and redheads… — Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eye… · tree and pragmatics
description: A head has about 100,000 hairs; blondes often have more and redheads fewer, and losing about 50 to 100 hairs a day is normal. Who acts: head, blondes, losing. A sentence of the lesson «Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eyelashes and going grey» of the biology course of Mova's primary scho
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# Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eyelashes and going grey, sentence 4

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A head has about 100,000 hairs; blondes often have more and redheads fewer, and losing about 50 to 100 hairs a day is normal.

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**Who acts:** head, blondes, losing · **What happens:** have, lose, be · **To what, where:** 100,000 hairs, more, 50

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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 (head, blondes, losing), 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:4
# text = A head has about 100,000 hairs; blondes often have more and redheads fewer, and losing about 50 to 100 hairs a day is normal.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	100,000	100000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	hairs	hair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
8	blondes	blonde	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	often	often	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	redheads	redhead	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	fewer	few	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	losing	lose	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	csubj	_	_
18	about	about	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	50	50	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:case
21	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	hairs	hair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nmod
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
27	.	.	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 | **have** | present | a head | 100,000 hairs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | blondes | more |  |  |  | often *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient |
| 3 | **lose** | gerund |  | 50 |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | losing |  |  |  |  | normal *property* | tree rules |

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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:4`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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