--- title: A girl in Manchester had head lice but did not tell anyone because s… — Washing your body and caring for your hair · tree and pragmatics description: A girl in Manchester had head lice but did not tell anyone because she was embarrassed; they spread to her sister and three friends before they were treated. Who acts: girl, 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 (girl, lice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:076-washing-your-body-and-hair.lesson:19 # text = A girl in Manchester had head lice but did not tell anyone because she was embarrassed; they spread to her sister and three friends before they were treated. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 076-washing-your-body-and-hair.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 ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Manchester Manchester PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 lice louse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 11 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 12 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 11 obj _ _ 13 because because SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 embarrassed embarrass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 advcl _ _ 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 20 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 26 before before SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 treated treat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 advcl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | a girl in Manchester | head lice | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent louse=Patient | | 2 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | a girl in Manchester *not said here* | | anyone | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient | | 3 | **embarrass** | past · passive | | girl | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 4 | **spread** | past | lice *= louse* | | | | | to girl's sister and three friends | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **treat** | past · passive | | lice *= louse* | | | | | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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:076-washing-your-body-and-hair.lesson:19`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Washing your body and caring for your…, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/76-washing-your-body-and-hair/18/) - next →: [Washing your body and caring for your…, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/76-washing-your-body-and-hair/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/76-washing-your-body-and-hair/)