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title: Head lice are tiny wingless insects that live only on people's heads… — Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes… · tree and pragmatics
description: Head lice are tiny wingless insects that live only on people's heads; they cannot jump or fly, only crawl from hair to hair when heads touch, and they are not a sign of dirty hair. Who acts: Head lice, tiny wingless insects, lice, heads. A sentence of the lesson «Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroac
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# Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice, sentence 16

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Head lice are tiny wingless insects that live only on people's heads; they cannot jump or fly, only crawl from hair to hair when heads touch, and they are not a sign of dirty hair.

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**Who acts:** Head lice, tiny wingless insects, lice, heads · **What happens:** be, live, not jump, fly, crawl, touch · **To what, where:** tiny wingless insects, heads, hair, sign

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice» of the biology 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 wingless insects, lice, heads), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:397-pests-mice-in-the-kitchen-cockroaches-clothes-moths-fleas-and-head-lice.lesson:16
# text = Head lice are tiny wingless insects that live only on people's heads; they cannot jump or fly, only crawl from hair to hair when heads touch, and they are not a sign of dirty hair.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 397-pests-mice-in-the-kitchen-cockroaches-clothes-moths-fleas-and-head-lice.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	lice	louse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	wingless	wingless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	crawl	crawl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:nmod
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
29	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	touch	touch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
33	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
34	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=18:conj
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Head lice | tiny wingless insects and a sign |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | present | tiny wingless insects and a sign |  |  | people's heads |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on head=Location |
| 3 | **not** **jump** | can | lice *= louse* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fly** | infinitive | lice *= louse* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **crawl** | infinitive | lice *= louse* *not said here* |  |  | hair to hair |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from hair=Trajectory |
| 6 | **touch** | present | heads |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **is a** | present | lice *= louse* | a sign |  |  |  | of dirty hair | tree rules |

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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.

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**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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