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title: Hair grows about one centimetre a month; each hair grows for years,… — Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eye… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hair grows about one centimetre a month; each hair grows for years, then rests and falls out, and a new one grows from the same follicle. Who acts: Hair, new one. A sentence of the lesson «Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eyelashes and going grey» of the biology course of Mova's primary 
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# Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eyelashes and going grey, sentence 5

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Hair grows about one centimetre a month; each hair grows for years, then rests and falls out, and a new one grows from the same follicle.

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**Who acts:** Hair, new one · **What happens:** grow, rest, fall out

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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 (Hair, new one), 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:5
# text = Hair grows about one centimetre a month; each hair grows for years, then rests and falls out, and a new one grows from the same follicle.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Hair	Hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	centimetre	centimetre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
16	rests	rest	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	follicle	follicle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | present | Hair |  |  |  | month | about one centimetre | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about centimetre=Location |
| 2 | **grow** | present | each hair |  |  |  | year |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **rest** | present | each hair *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fall out** | present | each hair *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **grow** | present | a new one |  |  |  |  | from the same follicle | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from follicle=Patient |

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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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**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): 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.

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

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