--- title: Head lice spread by head-to-head contact, cannot fly or jump, lay eg… — Spots and itches: chickenpox, head lice and frie… · tree and pragmatics description: Head lice spread by head-to-head contact, cannot fly or jump, lay eggs called nits on the hairs, and are found by wet-combing with conditioner and a fine nit comb. Who acts: Head lice, eggs, wet combing. 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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 (Head lice, eggs, wet combing), 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:9 # text = Head lice spread by head-to-head contact, cannot fly or jump, lay eggs called nits on the hairs, and are found by wet-combing with conditioner and a fine nit comb. # 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 ×1 1 Head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 lice louse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 3 spread spread VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 5 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ _ 9 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 contact contact NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 15 or or CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 jump jump VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 19 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 21 nits nit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 xcomp _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:advcl 29 by by ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ _ 32 combing combing NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 conditioner conditioner NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 37 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 38 nit nit NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 comb comb NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:conj 40 . . PUNCT . _ 14 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 | **spread** | participle | | Head lice *not said here* | | | | by head contact | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by contact=Location | | 2 | **not** **fly** | can | Head lice | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **jump** | infinitive | Head lice *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **lay** | infinitive | Head lice *not said here* | eggs | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | | 5 | **call** | participle | eggs *not said here* | nits on the hairs | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **find** | present · passive | wet combing with conditioner and a fine nit comb | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | 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:9`. **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 ×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. 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