--- title: Head lice can't fly or jump; they walk from head to head when heads… — Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and frie… · tree and pragmatics description: Head lice can't fly or jump; they walk from head to head when heads touch, and they like clean hair just as much as dirty hair. Who acts: Head lice, lice, heads. A sentence of the lesson «Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and friends» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school with its de --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/11-spots-and-itches-chickenpox-head-lice-and-friends/2/) [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/) / [Medicine](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/) / [Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lic…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/11-spots-and-itches-chickenpox-head-lice-and-friends/) / 2 # Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and friends, sentence 2 Head lice can't fly or jump; they walk from head to head when heads touch, and they like clean hair just as much as dirty hair. **Who acts:** Head lice, lice, heads · **What happens:** not fly, jump, walk, head, touch, like · **To what, where:** head, clean hair This is a sentence of the lesson «Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and friends» of the medicine 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, lice, heads), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:medicine:011-spots-and-itches-chickenpox-head-lice-and-friends.lesson:2 # text = Head lice can't fly or jump; they walk from head to head when heads touch, and they like clean hair just as much as dirty hair. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = medicine # lesson = 011-spots-and-itches-chickenpox-head-lice-and-friends.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, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 Head head NOUN NN _ 2 compound _ _ 2 lice louse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 jump jump VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 walk walk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:mark|HaikuPos=PART:TO:_ 14 head head VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 15 when when SCONJ WRB _ 17 mark _ _ 16 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 touch touch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:advcl 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:parataxis 22 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 just just ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 25 as as ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obj 27 as as ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 dirty dirty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **fly** | can | Head lice | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **jump** | infinitive | Head lice *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **walk** | present | lice *= louse* | | | head | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from head=Trajectory | | 4 | **head** | infinitive | lice *= louse* *not said here* | | | | | | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **touch** | present | heads | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **like** | present | lice *= louse* | clean hair | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hair=Theme | 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:medicine:011-spots-and-itches-chickenpox-head-lice-and-friends.lesson:2`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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