--- title: A fine comb gets head lice out, and clean hair gets lice just as eas… — Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes… · tree and pragmatics description: A fine comb gets head lice out, and clean hair gets lice just as easily as dirty hair. Who acts: fine comb, clean hair. 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 with its dependency tree and t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/397-pests-mice-in-the-kitchen-cockroaches-clothes-moths-fleas-and-head-lice/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroache…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/397-pests-mice-in-the-kitchen-cockroaches-clothes-moths-fleas-and-head-lice/) / 17 # Pests: mice in the kitchen, cockroaches, clothes moths, fleas and head lice, sentence 17 A fine comb gets head lice out, and clean hair gets lice just as easily as dirty hair. **Who acts:** fine comb, clean hair · **What happens:** get out, get · **To what, where:** head lice, lice 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 (fine comb, clean hair), 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:17 # text = A fine comb gets head lice out, and clean hair gets lice just as easily as 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 comb comb NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 lice lice NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 7 out out ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 13 lice louse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 14 just just ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 as as ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 easily easily ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 17 as as ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 dirty dirty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get out** | present | a fine comb | head lice | | | | out *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **get** | present | clean hair | lice | | | | easily *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer louse=Stimulus | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:397-pests-mice-in-the-kitchen-cockroaches-clothes-moths-fleas-and-head-lice.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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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