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title: Some hair dyes open the outer layer of the hair so the colour can ge… — Dyes, inks and colouring · tree and pragmatics
description: Some hair dyes open the outer layer of the hair so the colour can get inside and react there; because some people are allergic, a skin test is done first. Who acts: hair dyes, colour, people. A sentence of the lesson «Dyes, inks and colouring» of the chemistry course of Mova's primary school with it
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# Dyes, inks and colouring, sentence 17

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Some hair dyes open the outer layer of the hair so the colour can get inside and react there; because some people are allergic, a skin test is done first.

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**Who acts:** hair dyes, colour, people · **What happens:** open, get, react, be, do · **To what, where:** outer layer, skin test

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Dyes, inks and colouring» of the chemistry 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 dyes, colour, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:chemistry:027-dyes-inks-colouring.lesson:17
# text = Some hair dyes open the outer layer of the hair so the colour can get inside and react there; because some people are allergic, a skin test is done first.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = chemistry
# lesson = 027-dyes-inks-colouring.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	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
2	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	dyes	dye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	open	open	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	layer	layer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
16	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	react	react	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
19	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	allergic	allergic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	advcl	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
32	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	31	advmod	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **open** | present | some hair dyes | the outer layer of the hair |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location layer=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | can | the colour |  |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **react** | infinitive | the colour *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | some people |  |  |  |  | allergic *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | present · passive |  | a skin test |  |  |  | first *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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:chemistry:027-dyes-inks-colouring.lesson:17`.

**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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