--- title: The best protection is respect: do not grab, squeeze or corner anima… — Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps,… · tree and pragmatics description: The best protection is respect: do not grab, squeeze or corner animals, ask the owner before stroking a dog, leave nests alone and check your skin after walks in long grass. Who acts: best protection. 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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 (best protection), 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:4 # text = The best protection is respect: do not grab, squeeze or corner animals, ask the owner before stroking a dog, leave nests alone and check your skin after walks in long grass. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 3 protection protection NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 respect respect NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 grab grab VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 squeeze squeeze VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 corner corner VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 14 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 before before SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 20 stroking stroke VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=16:conj 25 nests nest NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 alone alone ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 29 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 after after ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 walks walk NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the best protection | respect | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **grab** | infinitive · do-support | | | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **squeeze** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **corner** | infinitive | | animals | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | | the owner | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient | | 6 | **stroke** | gerund | | a dog | | | | | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Experiencer | | 7 | **leave** | infinitive | | nests | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Theme | | 8 | **check** | infinitive | | your skin | | | after walks in long grass | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=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:399-bites-stings-and-scratches-mosquitoes-wasps-ticks-dog-bites-and-cat-scratches.lesson:4`. **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. **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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