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title: A mosquito's mouth is not one needle but six thin parts working toge… — Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps,… · tree and pragmatics
description: A mosquito's mouth is not one needle but six thin parts working together. Who acts: mouth. 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 pragmatics of every
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# Bites, stings and scratches: mosquitoes, wasps, ticks, dog bites and cat scratches, sentence 8

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A mosquito's mouth is not one needle but six thin parts working together.

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**Who acts:** mouth · **What happens:** not be, work together · **To what, where:** one needle

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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 (mouth), 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:8
# text = A mosquito's mouth is not one needle but six thin parts working together.
# 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 ×2
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:det
2	mosquito	mosquito	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	needle	needle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:nsubj
13	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
14	together	together	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | a mosquito's mouth | one needle and six thin parts |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **work together** | gerund | a mosquito's mouth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:8`.

**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 ×2. **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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