Washing your body and caring for your hair, sentence 3

Head lice are tiny insects that live in hair; anyone can get them, clean or dirty, and they are easy to treat with a fine-tooth comb.

Who acts: Head lice, tiny insects, anyone, lice · What happens: be, live, get, treat · To what, where: tiny insects, hair, lice

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 (Head lice, tiny insects, anyone, 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	5 insects	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 insects	cop
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 insects	amod
5	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 live	nsubj
7	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 insects	acl:relcl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 hair	case
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 live	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 get	punct
11	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 get	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 get	aux
13	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 insects	parataxis
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 get	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 clean	punct
16	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 get	xcomp
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 dirty	cc
18	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 clean	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 easy	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 easy	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 easy	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 easy	cop
23	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 clean	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 treat	mark
25	treat	treat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 easy	xcomp
26	with	with	ADP	_	31 comb	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 comb	det
28	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 tooth	amod
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 fine	punct
30	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 comb	compound
31	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 treat	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 insects	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Head lice	tiny insects			tree rules
2	live	present	tiny insects		hair		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hair=Location
3	get	can	anyone	lice = louse		clean property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
4	is	present	lice = louse			easy property	tree rules
5	treat	to-infinitive	lice = louse not said here			with a tooth comb	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent with comb=Theme

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:3.

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 ×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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