Chickens, goats and little creatures, sentence 17

Head lice (people often call them nits, the name of their eggs) spread by head-to-head contact and are common, not a sign of being dirty.

Who acts: people, Head lice · What happens: call, spread, be, name · To what, where: lice, eggs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Chickens, goats and little creatures» of the everyday 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 (people, Head lice), 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	16 spread	nsubj
3	(	(	PUNCT	_	4 people	punct
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 call	nsubj
5	often	often	ADV	_	6 call	advmod
6	call	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lice	parataxis
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 call	obj
8	nits	nit	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 call	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 name	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 name	det
11	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lice	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 eggs	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 eggs	nmod:poss
14	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 name	nmod
15	)	)	PUNCT	_	11 name	punct
16	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	by	by	ADP	_	23 contact	case
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 contact	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 contact	punct
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 contact	case
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 to	punct
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 contact	compound
23	contact	contact	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spread	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 common	cc
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 common	cop
26	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 spread	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sign	punct
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 sign	advmod
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 sign	det
30	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 common	conj
31	of	of	SCONJ	_	33 dirty	mark
32	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 dirty	cop
33	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 sign	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 spread	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call	present	people	lice = louse	often property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	spread	present	Head lice		by head head contact	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by contact=Location
3	is	present	Head lice not said here		common property	tree rules
4	is	gerund			dirty property	tree rules
5	name			lice's eggs		nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

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:everyday:068-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures.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): R5-strong ×2, 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.

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