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title: Eating crusts does not make hair curly; curliness comes mostly from… — What really happens to things you swallow · tree and pragmatics
description: Eating crusts does not make hair curly; curliness comes mostly from your genes and the shape of the tiny pocket each hair grows from. Who acts: Eating, curliness, hair. A sentence of the lesson «What really happens to things you swallow» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependen
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# What really happens to things you swallow, sentence 9

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Eating crusts does not make hair curly; curliness comes mostly from your genes and the shape of the tiny pocket each hair grows from.

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**Who acts:** Eating, curliness, hair · **What happens:** eat, not make, come, grow · **To what, where:** crusts, hair, genes, tiny pocket

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This is a sentence of the lesson «What really happens to things you swallow» of the myths 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 (Eating, curliness, hair), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:001-what-really-happens-to-things-you-swallow.lesson:9
# text = Eating crusts does not make hair curly; curliness comes mostly from your genes and the shape of the tiny pocket each hair grows from.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 001-what-really-happens-to-things-you-swallow.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Eating	eat	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	crusts	crust	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	curly	curly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	curliness	curliness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
11	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	genes	gene	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **eat** | gerund |  | crusts |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crust=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **make** | present · do-support | Eating | hair |  |  |  | curly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hair=Product |
| 3 | **come** | present | curliness |  |  | your genes and the shape of the tiny pocket |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from gene=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **grow** | present | each hair | the tiny pocket *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pocket=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): R7-rel-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.

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