--- title: The parts you cut, hair and nails, are not alive, which is why the b… — Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby t… · tree and pragmatics description: The parts you cut, hair and nails, are not alive, which is why the barber's scissors and Sunday nail clippers never hurt; the living part hides in the skin, out of reach. Who acts: you, parts, scissors, living part. 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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 (you, parts, scissors, living part), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:071-growing-from-baby-to-grown-up.lesson:2 # text = The parts you cut, hair and nails, are not alive, which is why the barber's scissors and Sunday nail clippers never hurt; the living part hides in the skin, out of reach. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 071-growing-from-baby-to-grown-up.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 cut cut VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 nails nail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 parataxis _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 barber barber NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 's 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 scissors scissors NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:compound 23 nail nail NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 clippers clipper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 25 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 hurt hurt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl:relcl _ _ 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=12:punct 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 hides hide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:conj 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 out out ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 reach reach NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 12 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 | **cut** | present | you | hair and nails | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Product | | 2 | **not** **is** | present | the parts | | | | | alive *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **hurt** | past | the barber's scissors and Sunday nail clippers | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **hide** | present | the living part | | | the skin | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in skin=Location | 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. 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