Washing your body and caring for your hair, sentence 19
A girl in Manchester had head lice but did not tell anyone because she was embarrassed; they spread to her sister and three friends before they were treated.
Who acts: girl, lice · What happens: have, not tell, embarrass, spread, treat · To what, where: head lice, anyone, girl, lice · 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 (girl, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Manchester | case |
| 4 | Manchester | Manchester | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lice | compound |
| 7 | lice | louse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 tell | cc |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 tell | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 tell | advmod |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 had | conj |
| 12 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 11 tell | obj |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 embarrassed | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 embarrassed | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 embarrassed | aux:pass |
| 16 | embarrassed | embarrass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 tell | advcl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 spread | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 spread | nsubj |
| 19 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 sister | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 sister | nmod:poss |
| 22 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spread | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 friends | cc |
| 24 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 friends | nummod |
| 25 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sister | conj |
| 26 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 29 treated | mark |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 treated | aux:pass |
| 29 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 spread | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | a girl in Manchester | head lice | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent louse=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert | past · do-support | a girl in Manchester not said here | anyone | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | embarrass | past · passive | girl | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | spread | past | lice = louse | to girl's sister and three friends | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | treat | past · passive | lice = louse | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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:19.
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 ×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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