--- title: Many mosquitoes bite most at dusk (when it gets dark in the evening)… — Heat, sports gear and mosquitoes · tree and pragmatics description: Many mosquitoes bite most at dusk (when it gets dark in the evening) and dawn (when it gets light in the morning). Who acts: Many mosquitoes, gear. 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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 (Many mosquitoes, gear), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:252-heat-equipment-and-mosquitoes.lesson:13 # text = Many mosquitoes bite most at dusk (when it gets dark in the evening) and dawn (when it gets light in the morning). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 252-heat-equipment-and-mosquitoes.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 ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 mosquitoes mosquito NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 bite bite VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 3 advmod _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 dusk dusk NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 8 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 11 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 10 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 17 dawn dawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 18 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 gets get VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 22 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bite** | present | Many mosquitoes | | | | dusk | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **get** | present | gear | | | | | dark *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **get** | present | gear | light | | | morning | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | 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:everyday:252-heat-equipment-and-mosquitoes.lesson:13`. **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 ×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: [Heat, sports gear and mosquitoes, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/252-heat-equipment-and-mosquitoes/12/) - next →: [Heat, sports gear and mosquitoes, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/252-heat-equipment-and-mosquitoes/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/252-heat-equipment-and-mosquitoes/)