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title: Rabies is a virus carried in the spit of infected animals, and in ma… — Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never… · tree and pragmatics
description: Rabies is a virus carried in the spit of infected animals, and in many countries street dogs are the main source. Who acts: Rabies, street dogs. A sentence of the lesson «Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with it
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# Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal, sentence 11

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Rabies is a virus carried in the spit of infected animals, and in many countries street dogs are the main source.

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**Who acts:** Rabies, street dogs · **What happens:** virus, carry, be · **To what, where:** virus, spit, main source, many countries

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Street dogs and cats: feeding, safety and never touching a strange animal» 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 (Rabies, street dogs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal.lesson:11
# text = Rabies is a virus carried in the spit of infected animals, and in many countries street dogs are the main source.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal.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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Rabies	rabies	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:appos
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	virus	virus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	spit	spit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	infected	infected	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
17	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **virus** |  | Rabies |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry** | present · passive |  | a virus |  | the spit of infected animals |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in spit=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | present | street dogs | the main source |  | many countries |  |  | 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:biology:371-street-dogs-and-cats-feeding-safety-and-never-touching-a-strange-animal.lesson:11`.

**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): 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.

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

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