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title: Some mosquitoes carry malaria, which kills about 600,000 people a ye… — Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some mosquitoes carry malaria, which kills about 600,000 people a year, mostly young children in Africa, so mosquitoes are the deadliest animals to people. Who acts: mosquitoes, malaria. A sentence of the lesson «Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshoppers» of the biology course o
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# Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshoppers, sentence 14

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Some mosquitoes carry malaria, which kills about 600,000 people a year, mostly young children in Africa, so mosquitoes are the deadliest animals to people.

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**Who acts:** mosquitoes, malaria · **What happens:** carry, kill, be · **To what, where:** malaria, 600,000 people, deadliest animals

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshoppers» of the biology 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 (mosquitoes, malaria), 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:14
# text = Some mosquitoes carry malaria, which kills about 600,000 people a year, mostly young children in Africa, so mosquitoes are the deadliest animals to people.
# 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): no change
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	mosquitoes	mosquito	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	malaria	malaria	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	kills	kill	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	600,000	600,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
21	mosquitoes	mosquito	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	deadliest	deadly	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
25	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | present | some mosquitoes | malaria |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent malaria=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** | present | malaria | 600,000 people |  |  | year | young children in Africa *obl* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | mosquitoes | the deadliest animals |  |  |  | to people | 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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**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): no change. **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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