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title: A grown-up decides whether it needs a wash and a cool cloth, a docto… — Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps,… · tree and pragmatics
description: A grown-up decides whether it needs a wash and a cool cloth, a doctor or an emergency call. Who acts: step. 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 with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps, ticks, dog bites and cat scratches, sentence 6

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A grown-up decides whether it needs a wash and a cool cloth, a doctor or an emergency call.

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**Who acts:** step · **What happens:** grow up, decide, need · **To what, where:** wash · **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 (step), 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:6
# text = A grown-up decides whether it needs a wash and a cool cloth, a doctor or an emergency call.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R4-particle ×1, R5-strong ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det
2	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	nsubj	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	_
4	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_
5	decides	decide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wash	wash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **decide** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **need** | present | step | a wash and a cool cloth and a doctor or a emergency call |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wash=Theme |

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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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**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:6`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2, R4-particle ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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