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title: Head lice are very common and can happen to anyone; lice do not care… — Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing mom… · tree and pragmatics
description: Head lice are very common and can happen to anyone; lice do not care whether hair is clean or dirty, so having them is not about being dirty. Who acts: Head lice, lice, hair, having. A sentence of the lesson «Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing moments» of the reflection course of Mova's pr
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# Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing moments, sentence 17

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Head lice are very common and can happen to anyone; lice do not care whether hair is clean or dirty, so having them is not about being dirty.

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**Who acts:** Head lice, lice, hair, having · **What happens:** be, happen, not care, have, not be · **To what, where:** lice

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing moments» of the reflection 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, hair, having), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:reflection:011-cringe-that-lasts-getting-over-embarrassing-moments.lesson:17
# text = Head lice are very common and can happen to anyone; lice do not care whether hair is clean or dirty, so having them is not about being dirty.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = reflection
# lesson = 011-cringe-that-lasts-getting-over-embarrassing-moments.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3
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	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	advcl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obl	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	lice	louse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
16	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	ccomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:advcl
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	csubj	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
28	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=30:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
29	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	cop	_	_
30	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=30:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Head lice |  |  |  |  | common *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **happen** | can | Head lice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to anyone | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **care** | present · do-support | lice |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | present | hair |  |  |  |  | clean *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | hair *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** | gerund |  | lice *= louse* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 7 | **not** **is** | present | having |  |  |  |  | dirty *property* | tree rules |

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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:reflection:011-cringe-that-lasts-getting-over-embarrassing-moments.lesson:17`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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