--- title: Only female mosquitoes bite, to get protein for their eggs; the itch… — Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes… · tree and pragmatics description: Only female mosquitoes bite, to get protein for their eggs; the itch is your body reacting to the mosquito's spit, and they find people in the dark by sensing the carbon dioxide gas in their breath, their warmth and their smell. Who acts: female mosquitoes, itch, body, eyes. 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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 (female mosquitoes, itch, body, eyes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:037-butterflies-beetles-flies-mosquitoes-grasshoppers.lesson:13 # text = Only female mosquitoes bite, to get protein for their eggs; the itch is your body reacting to the mosquito's spit, and they find people in the dark by sensing the carbon dioxide gas in their breath, their warmth and their smell. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 037-butterflies-beetles-flies-mosquitoes-grasshoppers.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Only only ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod 2 female female ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 mosquitoes mosquito NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 bite bite VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 8 protein protein NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 9 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 itch itch NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 18 reacting react VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 acl _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 mosquito mosquito NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 's 's PART POS _ 21 case _ _ 23 spit spit NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 28 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=43:det 31 dark dark NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 by by SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 33 sensing sense VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 carbon carbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 dioxide dioxide NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 gas gas NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 42 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 warmth warmth NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 45 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 conj _ _ 47 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **bite** | present | female mosquitoes | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | female mosquitoes *not said here* | protein | | | | for eyes's eggs | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent protein=Theme for egg=Source | | 3 | **is a** | present | the itch | your body | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **react** | gerund | your body *not said here* | | | | | to the mosquito's spit | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to spit=Theme | | 5 | **find** | present | eyes *= eye* | people | | the dark | | eyes's warmth and eyes's smell *obl* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic | | 6 | **sense** | gerund | eyes *= eye* *not said here* | the dioxide gas | | eyes's breath | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer gas=Stimulus | | 7 | **smell** | | eyes *= eye* | | | | | | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: poss=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:biology:037-butterflies-beetles-flies-mosquitoes-grasshoppers.lesson:13`. **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 ×2, R6-punct-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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