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title: Head lice are tiny insects that live in hair; anyone can get them, c… — Washing your body and caring for your hair · tree and pragmatics
description: Head lice are tiny insects that live in hair; anyone can get them, clean or dirty, and they are easy to treat with a fine-tooth comb. Who acts: Head lice, tiny insects, anyone, lice. A sentence of the lesson «Washing your body and caring for your hair» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school
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# Washing your body and caring for your hair, sentence 3

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Head lice are tiny insects that live in hair; anyone can get them, clean or dirty, and they are easy to treat with a fine-tooth comb.

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**Who acts:** Head lice, tiny insects, anyone, lice · **What happens:** be, live, get, treat · **To what, where:** tiny insects, hair, lice

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Washing your body and caring for your hair» of the everyday 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 insects, anyone, 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:3
# text = Head lice are tiny insects that live in hair; anyone can get them, clean or dirty, and they are easy to treat with a fine-tooth comb.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	lice	louse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	insects	insect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	treat	treat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:amod
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	_
30	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Head lice | tiny insects |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | present | tiny insects |  |  | hair |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hair=Location |
| 3 | **get** | can | anyone | lice *= louse* |  |  |  | clean *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | present | lice *= louse* |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **treat** | to-infinitive | lice *= louse* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a tooth comb | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent with comb=Theme |

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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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**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:3`.

**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 ×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/).

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