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title: Walk around animal poo and never touch it, because it carries worms… — Bites, stings and things you find on the ground · tree and pragmatics
description: Walk around animal poo and never touch it, because it carries worms and germs. Who acts: you, poo. A sentence of the lesson «Bites, stings and things you find on the ground» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Bites, stings and things you find on the ground, sentence 17

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Walk around animal poo and never touch it, because it carries worms and germs.

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**Who acts:** you, poo · **What happens:** walk, not touch, carry · **To what, where:** animal poo, poo, worms

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bites, stings and things you find on the ground» of the everyday 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, poo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:238-bites-and-things-you-find.lesson:17
# text = Walk around animal poo and never touch it, because it carries worms and germs.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 238-bites-and-things-you-find.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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Walk	walk	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	around	around	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	poo	poo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
13	worms	worm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **walk** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | animal poo |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around poo=Trajectory |
| 2 | **not** **touch** | infinitive | you *not said here* | poo |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **carry** | present | poo | worms and germs |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=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:everyday:238-bites-and-things-you-find.lesson:17`.

**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): R8-pos-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/).

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