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title: Hair, nails and ears look after themselves in many ways, but they ne… — Hair, nails and ears · tree and pragmatics
description: Hair, nails and ears look after themselves in many ways, but they need a little sensible care and a few safety rules. Who acts: Hair. A sentence of the lesson «Hair, nails and ears» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Hair, nails and ears, sentence 0

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Hair, nails and ears look after themselves in many ways, but they need a little sensible care and a few safety rules.

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**Who acts:** Hair · **What happens:** look, need · **To what, where:** little sensible care

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hair, nails and ears» 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 (Hair), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:077-hair-nails-and-ears.lesson:0
# text = Hair, nails and ears look after themselves in many ways, but they need a little sensible care and a few safety rules.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 077-hair-nails-and-ears.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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=1:punct
3	nails	nail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
6	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	sensible	sensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | Hair and nails and ears |  |  |  | after Hair | in many ways | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in way=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | present | Hair | a little sensible care and a few safety rules |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot care=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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**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:077-hair-nails-and-ears.lesson:0`.

**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): R2-punct-next ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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