Chickens, goats and little creatures, sentence 4

Some small creatures need care from us: the hairs of some caterpillars cause rashes, and head lice spread from head to head, which is common and not a sign of being dirty.

Who acts: small creatures, hairs, head lice, head, sign · What happens: need, cause, spread, be · To what, where: care, rashes, head

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 (small creatures, hairs, head lice, head), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 creatures	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 creatures	amod
3	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 need	nsubj
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 us	case
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 need	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 need	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hairs	det
10	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 cause	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 caterpillars	case
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 caterpillars	det
13	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hairs	nmod
14	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 need	parataxis
15	rashes	rash	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 cause	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 spread	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 spread	cc
18	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lice	compound
19	lice	louse	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 spread	nsubj
20	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 cause	conj
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 head	case
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 spread	obl
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 head	case
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 spread	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 common	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 common	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 common	cop
28	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 head	acl:relcl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 sign	cc
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 sign	advmod
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 sign	det
32	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 common	conj
33	of	of	SCONJ	_	35 dirty	mark
34	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 dirty	cop
35	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 sign	acl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 need	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	need	present	some small creatures	care		from us	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot care=Theme
2	cause	present	the hairs of some caterpillars	rashes			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition rash=Patient
3	spread	present	head lice		head	to head	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	head			common property	tree rules
5	is	gerund	a sign not said here			dirty property	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:everyday:068-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures.lesson:4.

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): R2-punct-next ×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.

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