--- title: Some small creatures need care from us: the hairs of some caterpilla… — Chickens, goats and little creatures · tree and pragmatics description: Some small creatures need care from us: the hairs of some caterpillars cause rashes, and head lice spread from head to head, which is common and not a sign of being dirty. Who acts: small creatures, hairs, head lice, head. 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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 (small creatures, hairs, head lice, head), 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:4 # text = Some small creatures need care from us: the hairs of some caterpillars cause rashes, and head lice spread from head to head, which is common and 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 2 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 creatures creature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 13 det _ _ 13 caterpillars caterpillar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 14 cause cause VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 15 rashes rash NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=14:punct 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 lice louse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 spread spread VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 common common ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 acl:relcl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ _ 33 of of SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 34 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 cop _ _ 35 dirty dirty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:nmod 36 . . 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 | **need** | present | some small creatures | care | | | | from us | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot care=Theme | | 2 | **cause** | present | the hairs of some caterpillars | rashes | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition rash=Patient | | 3 | **spread** | present | head lice | | | head | | to head | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | head | | | | | common *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | gerund | a sign *not said here* | | | | | 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](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:4`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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/). - ← previous: [Chickens, goats and little creatures, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures/3/) - next →: [Chickens, goats and little creatures, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/68-chickens-goats-and-little-creatures/)