Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice, sentence 17
A fine comb gets head lice out, and clean hair gets lice just as easily as dirty hair.
Who acts: fine comb, clean hair · What happens: get out, get · To what, where: head lice, lice
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 (fine comb, clean hair), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 comb | det |
| 2 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 comb | amod |
| 3 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gets | nsubj |
| 4 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lice | compound |
| 6 | lice | lice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gets | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 gets | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gets | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gets | cc |
| 10 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hair | amod |
| 11 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gets | nsubj |
| 12 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gets | conj |
| 13 | lice | louse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gets | obj |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 easily | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 easily | advmod |
| 16 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 12 gets | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 hair | case |
| 18 | dirty | dirty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hair | amod |
| 19 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 easily | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get out | present | a fine comb | head lice | out property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | get | present | clean hair | lice | easily property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer louse=Stimulus |
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:17.
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 ×2, R8-pos-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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