Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and friends, sentence 9

Head lice spread by head-to-head contact, cannot fly or jump, lay eggs called nits on the hairs, and are found by wet-combing with conditioner and a fine nit comb.

Who acts: Head lice, eggs, wet combing · What happens: spread, not fly, jump, lay, call, find · To what, where: Head lice, eggs, nits · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and friends» of the medicine 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, eggs, wet combing), 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	14 fly	nsubj
3	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lice	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	10 contact	case
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 head	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 contact	punct
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 contact	case
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 to	punct
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 contact	compound
10	contact	contact	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spread	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 lice	punct
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 fly	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 fly	advmod
14	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 jump	cc
16	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 fly	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lay	punct
18	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 fly	conj
19	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 lay	obj
20	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 eggs	acl
21	nits	nit	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 called	xcomp
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 hairs	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 hairs	det
24	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 nits	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 found	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 found	cc
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 found	aux:pass
28	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 fly	conj
29	by	by	ADP	_	32 combing	case
30	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 combing	amod
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 wet	punct
32	combing	combing	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 found	obl
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 conditioner	case
34	conditioner	conditioner	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 combing	nmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 comb	cc
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 comb	det
37	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 comb	amod
38	nit	nit	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 comb	compound
39	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 conditioner	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 fly	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spread	participle		Head lice not said here	by head contact	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by contact=Location
2	not fly	can	Head lice			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	jump	infinitive	Head lice not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lay	infinitive	Head lice not said here	eggs		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
5	call	participle	eggs not said here	nits on the hairs		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	find	present · passive	wet combing with conditioner and a fine nit comb			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

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:medicine:011-spots-and-itches-chickenpox-head-lice-and-friends.lesson:9.

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, 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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