--- title: Ticks are eight-legged arachnids that climb grass and grab passing a… — Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatu… · tree and pragmatics description: Ticks are eight-legged arachnids that climb grass and grab passing animals to drink their blood; some carry Lyme disease, so a tick should be removed by an adult with a tick tool. Who acts: Ticks, legged arachnids, some, adult. 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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 (Ticks, legged arachnids, some, adult), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:038-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures.lesson:17 # text = Ticks are eight-legged arachnids that climb grass and grab passing animals to drink their blood; some carry Lyme disease, so a tick should be removed by an adult with a tick tool. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 038-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures.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, R8-pos-agree ×3 1 Ticks tick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 3 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 5 legged leg ADJ JJ _ 6 amod _ _ 6 arachnids arachnid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 climb climb VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 grab grab VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 12 passing pass VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 amod _ _ 13 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 16 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 19 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 20 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 20 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 21 Lyme Lyme PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 22 disease disease NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 tick tick NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 removed remove VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:conj 30 by by ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 tick tick NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 tool tool NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **is a** | present | Ticks | legged arachnids | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **climb** | present | legged arachnids | grass | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location grass=Theme | | 3 | **grab** | present | legged arachnids *not said here* | passing animals | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | | 4 | **pass** | gerund | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **drink** | to-infinitive | legged arachnids *not said here* | arachnids's blood | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient | | 6 | **carry** | present | some | Lyme disease | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disease=Theme | | 7 | **remove** | should · passive | a adult with a tick tool | a tick | | | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | 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:038-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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. 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