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title: Children do not cut their own hair, because it often goes wrong and… — Washing your body and caring for your hair · tree and pragmatics
description: Children do not cut their own hair, because it often goes wrong and scissors near the eyes are dangerous. Who acts: Children, child, scissors. A sentence of the lesson «Washing your body and caring for your hair» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Washing your body and caring for your hair, sentence 17

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Children do not cut their own hair, because it often goes wrong and scissors near the eyes are dangerous.

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**Who acts:** Children, child, scissors · **What happens:** not cut, go, be · **To what, where:** own hair

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Washing your body and caring for your hair» of the everyday 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 (Children, child, scissors), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:076-washing-your-body-and-hair.lesson:17
# text = Children do not cut their own hair, because it often goes wrong and scissors near the eyes are dangerous.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 076-washing-your-body-and-hair.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): no change
1	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	often	often	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
13	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
16	near	near	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
21	.	.	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 | **not** **cut** | present · do-support | Children | people's own hair |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Product |
| 2 | **go** | present | child |  |  |  |  | often, wrong *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | scissors near the eyes |  |  |  |  | dangerous *property* | tree rules |

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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:everyday:076-washing-your-body-and-hair.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): no change. **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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