--- title: Horseflies cut the skin with blade-like mouthparts and lap up the bl… — Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps,… · tree and pragmatics description: Horseflies cut the skin with blade-like mouthparts and lap up the blood, so the bite hurts more than a mosquito's; they are drawn to dark moving things and warm bodies. Who acts: Horseflies, bite. 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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 (Horseflies, bite), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:399-bites-stings-and-scratches-mosquitoes-wasps-ticks-dog-bites-and-cat-scratches.lesson:15 # text = Horseflies cut the skin with blade-like mouthparts and lap up the blood, so the bite hurts more than a mosquito's; they are drawn to dark moving things and warm bodies. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 399-bites-stings-and-scratches-mosquitoes-wasps-ticks-dog-bites-and-cat-scratches.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Horseflies horsefly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 blade blade NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ _ 8 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 mouthparts mouthpart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 lap lap VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 up up ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:det 18 bite bite NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 20 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 19 advmod _ _ 21 than than ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 mosquito mosquito NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 's 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 drawn draw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 29 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 dark dark ADJ VB Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 moving move ADJ VBG _ 32 amod _ _ 32 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 bodies body NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 conj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut** | past | Horseflies | the skin | | | | with like mouthparts | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient with mouthpart=Instrument | | 2 | **lap up** | present | Horseflies *not said here* | the blood | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient | | 3 | **hurt** | present | the bite | | | | | than a mosquito | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **draw** | present · passive | | bites *= bite* | | dark moving things and warm bodies | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to thing=Destination | 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:399-bites-stings-and-scratches-mosquitoes-wasps-ticks-dog-bites-and-cat-scratches.lesson:15`. **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 ×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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