--- title: Head lice (people often call them nits, the name of their eggs) spre… — Chickens, goats and little creatures · tree and pragmatics description: Head lice (people often call them nits, the name of their eggs) spread by head-to-head contact and are common, not a sign of being dirty. Who acts: people, Head lice. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, Head lice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:068-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures.lesson:17 # text = Head lice (people often call them nits, the name of their eggs) spread by head-to-head contact and are common, not a sign of being dirty. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 068-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures.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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 lice louse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 3 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 4 punct _ _ 4 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis 5 often often ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:parataxis 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 nits nit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:obj 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ _ 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 16 spread spread VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 18 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ _ 22 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 contact contact NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 conj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 31 of of SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=33:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 32 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 cop _ _ 33 dirty dirty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 nmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | present | people | lice *= louse* | | | | often *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 2 | **spread** | present | Head lice | | | | | by head head contact | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by contact=Location | | 3 | **is** | present | Head lice *not said here* | | | | | common *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | dirty *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **name** | | | lice's eggs | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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:everyday:068-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures.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): R5-strong ×2, 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/). - ← previous: [Chickens, goats and little creatures, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures/16/) - next →: [Chickens, goats and little creatures, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures/18/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures/)