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title: Chemotherapy kills fast-growing cells, including cancer cells and ha… — Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandpar… · tree and pragmatics
description: Chemotherapy kills fast-growing cells, including cancer cells and hair cells, so hair often falls out and usually grows back after treatment. Who acts: Chemotherapy, hair. A sentence of the lesson «Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandparent» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school w
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# Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandparent, sentence 8

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Chemotherapy kills fast-growing cells, including cancer cells and hair cells, so hair often falls out and usually grows back after treatment.

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**Who acts:** Chemotherapy, hair · **What happens:** kill, grow, fall out, grow back · **To what, where:** growing cells

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Being in hospital, and a sick parent or grandparent» of the medicine 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 (Chemotherapy, hair), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:medicine:033-being-in-hospital-and-a-sick-parent-or-grandparent.lesson:8
# text = Chemotherapy kills fast-growing cells, including cancer cells and hair cells, so hair often falls out and usually grows back after treatment.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = medicine
# lesson = 033-being-in-hospital-and-a-sick-parent-or-grandparent.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Chemotherapy	chemotherapy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:compound
2	kills	kill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
5	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	including	include	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	cancer	cancer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	often	often	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
23	back	back	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	after	after	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	treatment	treatment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **kill** | present | Chemotherapy | growing cells |  |  |  | include cancer cells and hair cells | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fall out** | present | hair |  |  |  |  | often *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **grow back** | present | hair *not said here* |  |  |  | after treatment | usually *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP 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): 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.

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