--- title: Each hair grows from a follicle in the skin, about 1 centimetre a mo… — Growing: teeth, height, hair, nails, from baby t… · tree and pragmatics description: Each hair grows from a follicle in the skin, about 1 centimetre a month; we lose about 50 to 100 hairs a day, and cutting hair does not make it grow back thicker or faster. Who acts: hair, we, cutting, skin. 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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, we, cutting, skin), 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:8 # text = Each hair grows from a follicle in the skin, about 1 centimetre a month; we lose about 50 to 100 hairs a day, and cutting hair does not make it grow back thicker or faster. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Each each DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 follicle follicle NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 about about ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 centimetre centimetre NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod:unmarked _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 lose lose VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 19 about about ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 50 50 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:case 22 100 100 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 cutting cut VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 csubj _ _ 29 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 back back ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 thicker thick ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 34 xcomp _ _ 37 or or CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 faster fast ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 36 conj _ _ 39 . . 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 | **grow** | present | each hair | 1 centimetre a month | | | | from a follicle in the skin | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.product V PP.patient»: agent=Product from follicle=Patient | | 2 | **lose** | present | we | 50 100 hairs | | | day | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Eventuality | | 3 | **cut** | gerund | | hair | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hair=Product | | 4 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | cutting | skin | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **grow** | infinitive | skin *not said here* | | | | | thick *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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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