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title: The hair you see is dead keratin, the same material as nails; only t… — Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eye… · tree and pragmatics
description: The hair you see is dead keratin, the same material as nails; only the root under the skin is alive, and shaving does not make hair grow back thicker. Who acts: you, hair, root, shaving. A sentence of the lesson «Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eyelashes and going grey» of the biology c
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# Hair: growing, curly and straight, eyebrows, eyelashes and going grey, sentence 7

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The hair you see is dead keratin, the same material as nails; only the root under the skin is alive, and shaving does not make hair grow back thicker.

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**Who acts:** you, hair, root, shaving · **What happens:** see, be, not make, not grow · **To what, where:** hair, dead keratin

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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 (you, hair, root, shaving), 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:7
# text = The hair you see is dead keratin, the same material as nails; only the root under the skin is alive, and shaving does not make hair grow back thicker.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	keratin	keratin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	parataxis	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	nails	nail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	root	root	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
18	under	under	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	shaving	shave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:nsubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part
26	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
29	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	back	back	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	thicker	thick	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	xcomp	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22: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 | **see** | present | you | the hair *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hair=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the hair | dead keratin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the root under the skin |  |  |  |  | alive *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | shaving | hair |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **grow** | infinitive | hair *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thick *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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