--- title: Only female mosquitoes bite, because they need blood to make their e… — Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps,… · tree and pragmatics description: Only female mosquitoes bite, because they need blood to make their eggs; their spit keeps the blood runny so it does not clot, and our body reacts to the spit with an itchy bump, which scratching makes itch even more. Who acts: female mosquitoes, wash, spit, body. 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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 (female mosquitoes, wash, spit, body), 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:7 # text = Only female mosquitoes bite, because they need blood to make their eggs; their spit keeps the blood runny so it does not clot, and our body reacts to the spit with an itchy bump, which scratching makes itch even more. # 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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Only only ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod 2 female female ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 mosquitoes mosquito NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 bite bite VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 because because SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 9 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:xcomp 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 spit spit NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 runny runny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:amod 21 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 clot clot VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 reacts react VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 spit spit NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 itchy itchy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 bump bump NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 40 scratching scratch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 41 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=37:acl:relcl 41 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 42 itch itch NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 43 even even ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 41 advmod _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=41:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bite** | present | female mosquitoes | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **need** | present | wash | blood | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot blood=Theme | | 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | wash *not said here* | wash's eggs | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset egg=Product | | 4 | **keep** | present | wash's spit | the blood | | | | runny *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Theme | | 5 | **not** **clot** | present · do-support | spit | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **react** | present | our body | | | | | to the spit with a itchy bump | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to spit=Theme | | 7 | **scratch** | gerund | | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **make** | present | | itch | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset itch=Product | 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:7`. **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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoe…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/399-bites-stings-and-scratches-mosquitoes-wasps-ticks-dog-bites-and-cat-scratches/6/) - next →: [Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoe…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/399-bites-stings-and-scratches-mosquitoes-wasps-ticks-dog-bites-and-cat-scratches/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/399-bites-stings-and-scratches-mosquitoes-wasps-ticks-dog-bites-and-cat-scratches/)