--- title: Body myths spread because something looks true: veins look blue, so… — Growing, skin, hair and food · tree and pragmatics description: Body myths spread because something looks true: veins look blue, so "blood is blue"; stubble feels rough, so "shaving makes hair thicker"; skin shrinks after death, so "hair keeps growing". Who acts: Body myths, something, veins, blood. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Body myths, something, veins, blood), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:006-growing-skin-hair-and-food.lesson:3 # text = Body myths spread because something looks true: veins look blue, so "blood is blue"; stubble feels rough, so "shaving makes hair thicker"; skin shrinks after death, so "hair keeps growing". # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 006-growing-skin-hair-and-food.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): R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 myths myth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 spread spread VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 because because SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 6 nsubj _ _ 6 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 7 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 veins vein NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 11 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=13:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 15 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 17 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 18 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 stubble stubble NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 rough rough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:amod 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=26:punct 26 shaving shave NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:csubj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 27 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 28 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 thicker thick ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 27 xcomp _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 shrinks shrink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 34 after after ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:nmod 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 so so ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 38 " " PUNCT `` _ 40 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=37:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 39 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 41 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 40 xcomp _ _ 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=41:punct 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spread** | present | Body myths | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **look** | present | something | | | | | true *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **look** | present | veins | | | | | blue *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | blood | | | | | blue *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **feel** | present | stubble | | | | | rough *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **make** *in a quote* | present | shaving | | | | | thick *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 7 | **shrink** | present | skin | | | | after death | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **keep** *in a quote* | present | hair | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **grow** *in a quote* | gerund | hair *not said here* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:myths:006-growing-skin-hair-and-food.lesson:3`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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: [Growing, skin, hair and food, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/6-growing-skin-hair-and-food/2/) - next →: [Growing, skin, hair and food, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/6-growing-skin-hair-and-food/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/6-growing-skin-hair-and-food/)