Washing your body and caring for your hair, sentence 16

Head lice (people often call them nits) spread through shared combs, brushes and hats and touching heads, and they are not a sign of being dirty.

Who acts: people, Head lice, sign · What happens: call, spread, share, touch, not be, be · To what, where: lice, shared combs, sign · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Washing your body and caring for your hair» 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, sign), 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	10 spread	nsubj
3	(	(	PUNCT	_	6 call	punct
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 call	nsubj
5	often	often	ADV	_	6 call	advmod
6	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	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	_	6 call	punct
10	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 combs	case
12	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 combs	amod
13	combs	comb	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 spread	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 brushes	punct
15	brushes	brush	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 combs	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 hats	cc
17	hats	hat	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 combs	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 heads	cc
19	touching	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 heads	amod
20	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 combs	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sign	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sign	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sign	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 sign	cop
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 sign	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 sign	det
27	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spread	conj
28	of	of	SCONJ	_	30 dirty	mark
29	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 dirty	cop
30	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 sign	acl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 spread	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	infinitive	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		shared combs and brushes and hats and touching heads		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through comb=Location
3	share	participle					tree rules
4	touch	gerund					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	not is a	present	people	a sign			tree rules
6	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:076-washing-your-body-and-hair.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): R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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