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title: After any bite or sting, tell a grown-up straight away, wash with so… — Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps,… · tree and pragmatics
description: After any bite or sting, tell a grown-up straight away, wash with soap and water and keep the hurt part still and cool; never try to catch or kill the animal, a photo from a safe distance is enough. Who acts: you, photo. A sentence of the lesson «Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps, ticks
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# Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps, ticks, dog bites and cat scratches, sentence 18

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After any bite or sting, tell a grown-up straight away, wash with soap and water and keep the hurt part still and cool; never try to catch or kill the animal, a photo from a safe distance is enough.

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**Who acts:** you, photo · **What happens:** tell, wash, keep, not try, catch, kill · **To what, where:** grown, hurt part, animal · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps, ticks, dog bites and cat scratches» 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 (you, photo), 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:18
# text = After any bite or sting, tell a grown-up straight away, wash with soap and water and keep the hurt part still and cool; never try to catch or kill the animal, a photo from a safe distance is enough.
# 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
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	sting	sting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:det
9	grown	grow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound	_	_
12	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	wash	wash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	hurt	hurt	ADJ	JJ	_	24	amod	_	_
24	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	still	still	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
28	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	photo	photo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
40	from	from	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
44	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
45	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	parataxis	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | grown |  |  | after any bite or sting | away *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent grow=Recipient |
| 2 | **wash** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with soap and water | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with soap=Instrument |
| 3 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the hurt part |  |  | still |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **try** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **catch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the animal |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme |
| 6 | **kill** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **is** | present | a photo from a safe distance |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | 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): R5-strong ×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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