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title: Long hair is tied back near machines, fire and in science class, bec… — Hair, nails and ears · tree and pragmatics
description: Long hair is tied back near machines, fire and in science class, because loose hair can catch in moving parts or a flame. Who acts: loose 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 5

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Long hair is tied back near machines, fire and in science class, because loose hair can catch in moving parts or a flame.

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**Who acts:** loose hair · **What happens:** tie back, catch, move · **To what, where:** Long hair, machines, moving parts

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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 (loose 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:5
# text = Long hair is tied back near machines, fire and in science class, because loose hair can catch in moving parts or a flame.
# 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): no change
1	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	near	near	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	machines	machine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	class	class	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	amod	_	_
22	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	.	.	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 | **tie back** | present · passive |  | Long hair |  | machines and fire and science class |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **catch** | can | loose hair |  |  | moving parts or a flame |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **move** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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**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.

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