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title: Hair dye that washes out lasts a few weeks; a parent may still say n… — "Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons · tree and pragmatics
description: Hair dye that washes out lasts a few weeks; a parent may still say no, but should give a real reason, such as school rules. Who acts: Hair dye, parent. A sentence of the lesson «"Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# "Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons, sentence 21

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Hair dye that washes out lasts a few weeks; a parent may still say no, but should give a real reason, such as school rules.

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**Who acts:** Hair dye, parent · **What happens:** wash out, last, say, give · **To what, where:** real reason · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «"Because I said so" and other dead-end reasons» of the world 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 (Hair dye, parent), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:163-because-i-said-so-dead-end-reasons.lesson:21
# text = Hair dye that washes out lasts a few weeks; a parent may still say no, but should give a real reason, such as school rules.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 163-because-i-said-so-dead-end-reasons.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	Hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dye	dye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	washes	wash	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	lasts	last	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	still	still	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
16	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	15	discourse	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	28	case	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **wash out** | present | Hair dye |  |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **last** | present | Hair dye |  |  |  | week |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | may | a parent |  |  |  | still |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give** | should | a parent *not said here* | a real reason |  |  |  | such school rules | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=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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