Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice, sentence 16

Head lice are tiny wingless insects that live only on people's heads; they cannot jump or fly, only crawl from hair to hair when heads touch, and they are not a sign of dirty hair.

Who acts: Head lice, tiny wingless insects, lice, heads · What happens: be, live, not jump, fly, crawl, touch · To what, where: tiny wingless insects, heads, hair, sign

This is a sentence of the lesson «Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice» of the biology 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 (Head lice, tiny wingless insects, lice, heads), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lice	compound
2	lice	louse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 insects	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 insects	cop
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 insects	amod
5	wingless	wingless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 insects	amod
6	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 live	nsubj
8	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 insects	acl:relcl
9	only	only	ADV	_	13 heads	advmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 heads	case
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 heads	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 people	case
13	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 live	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 jump	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 jump	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 jump	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 jump	advmod
18	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 insects	parataxis
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 fly	cc
20	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 jump	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 crawl	punct
22	only	only	ADV	_	23 crawl	advmod
23	crawl	crawl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 jump	conj
24	from	from	ADP	_	25 hair	case
25	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 crawl	obl
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 hair	case
27	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hair	nmod
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	30 touch	advmod
29	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 touch	nsubj
30	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 crawl	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 sign	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 sign	cc
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 sign	nsubj
34	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 sign	cop
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 sign	advmod
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 sign	det
37	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 insects	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 hair	case
39	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 hair	amod
40	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sign	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 insects	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Head lice	tiny wingless insects and a sign			tree rules
2	live	present	tiny wingless insects and a sign		people's heads		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on head=Location
3	not jump	can	lice = louse				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fly	infinitive	lice = louse not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	crawl	infinitive	lice = louse not said here		hair to hair		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from hair=Trajectory
6	touch	present	heads				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	not is a	present	lice = louse	a sign		of dirty hair	tree rules

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, 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:biology:397-pests-mice-in-the-kitchen-cockroaches-clothes-moths-fleas-and-head-lice.lesson:16.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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