--- title: A tick is a tiny eight-legged relative of spiders, not an insect; it… — Mushrooms and creatures to avoid in the woods: d… · tree and pragmatics description: A tick is a tiny eight-legged relative of spiders, not an insect; it waits on grass tips, grabs passing animals and drinks blood, and some ticks carry illnesses like Lyme disease. Who acts: tick, ticks. 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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 (tick, ticks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:393-mushrooms-and-creatures-to-avoid-in-the-woods-death-caps-adders-ticks-and-hornets.lesson:17 # text = A tick is a tiny eight-legged relative of spiders, not an insect; it waits on grass tips, grabs passing animals and drinks blood, and some ticks carry illnesses like Lyme disease. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 393-mushrooms-and-creatures-to-avoid-in-the-woods-death-caps-adders-ticks-and-hornets.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 tick tick NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 5 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 6 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 8 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nummod 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 legged leg ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 relative relative NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 14 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 insect insect NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 waits wait VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:conj 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 tips tip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 grabs grab VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 24 passing pass VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 25 amod _ _ 25 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 drinks drink VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=23:conj 28 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 32 det _ _ 32 ticks tick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 34 illnesses illness NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 35 like like ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 Lyme Lyme PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 disease disease NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - 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 | a tick | a tiny legged relative | | | | of spiders and a insect | tree rules | | 2 | **wait** | present | tick | | | grass tips | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tip=Location | | 3 | **grab** | present | tick *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** | present | tick *not said here* | blood | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient | | 6 | **carry** | present | some ticks | illnesses | | | | like Lyme disease | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent illness=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:393-mushrooms-and-creatures-to-avoid-in-the-woods-death-caps-adders-ticks-and-hornets.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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. 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