--- title: Long loose hair can catch in moving machines or a flame, so it is ti… — Hair, nails and ears · tree and pragmatics description: Long loose hair can catch in moving machines or a flame, so it is tied back near them; and cutting hair does not make it grow back thicker, the cut end only looks blunter. Who acts: Long loose hair, cutting, flame, cut end. A sentence of the lesson «Hair, nails and ears» of the everyday course of Mo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/77-hair-nails-and-ears/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Hair, nails and ears](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/77-hair-nails-and-ears/) / 1 # Hair, nails and ears, sentence 1 Long loose hair can catch in moving machines or a flame, so it is tied back near them; and cutting hair does not make it grow back thicker, the cut end only looks blunter. **Who acts:** Long loose hair, cutting, flame, cut end · **What happens:** catch, move, tie back, cut, not make, not grow back · **To what, where:** moving machines, flame, hair 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 (Long loose hair, cutting, flame, cut end), 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:1 # text = Long loose hair can catch in moving machines or a flame, so it is tied back near them; and cutting hair does not make it grow back thicker, the cut end only looks blunter. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 loose loose ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 amod _ _ 8 machines machine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 flame flame NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 tied tie VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:advcl 17 back back ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 near near ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:obl 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 cutting cut VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 csubj _ _ 23 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 back back ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 thicker thick ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 28 xcomp _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 cut cut NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 34 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 35 only only ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=26:conj 37 blunter blunt ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 36 xcomp _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **catch** | can | Long loose hair | | | moving machines or a flame | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **move** | gerund | | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **tie back** | present · passive | | flame | | | | near Hair | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **cut** | gerund | | hair | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hair=Product | | 5 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | cutting | flame | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **grow back** | infinitive | flame *not said here* | | | | | thick *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **look** | present | the cut end | | | | | blunt *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:077-hair-nails-and-ears.lesson:1`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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/). - ← previous: [Hair, nails and ears, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/77-hair-nails-and-ears/0/) - next →: [Hair, nails and ears, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/77-hair-nails-and-ears/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/77-hair-nails-and-ears/)