Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing moments, sentence 17

Head lice are very common and can happen to anyone; lice do not care whether hair is clean or dirty, so having them is not about being dirty.

Who acts: Head lice, lice, hair, having · What happens: be, happen, not care, have, not be · To what, where: lice

This is a sentence of the lesson «Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing moments» of the reflection 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, lice, hair, having), 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 common	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 common	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 common	advmod
5	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 dirty	advcl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 happen	cc
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 happen	aux
8	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 common	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 anyone	case
10	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 happen	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 care	punct
12	lice	louse	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 care	nsubj
13	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 care	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 care	advmod
15	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 common	parataxis
16	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	19 clean	mark
17	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 clean	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 clean	cop
19	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 care	ccomp
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 dirty	cc
21	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 clean	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 having	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 having	advmod
24	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 dirty	csubj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 having	obj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 dirty	cop
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 dirty	advmod
28	about	about	SCONJ	_	30 dirty	mark
29	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 dirty	cop
30	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 common	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	Head lice		common property	tree rules
2	happen	can	Head lice not said here		to anyone	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not care	present · do-support	lice			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	present	hair		clean property	tree rules
5	be		hair not said here			tree rules
6	have	gerund		lice = louse		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
7	not is	present	having		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:reflection:011-cringe-that-lasts-getting-over-embarrassing-moments.lesson:17.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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