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title: A girl in Florida did not use bug spray at dusk; she got many mosqui… — Heat, sports gear and mosquitoes · tree and pragmatics
description: A girl in Florida did not use bug spray at dusk; she got many mosquito bites and later became ill with a fever the doctors linked to them. Who acts: girl, doctors. A sentence of the lesson «Heat, sports gear and mosquitoes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and
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# Heat, sports gear and mosquitoes, sentence 17

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A girl in Florida did not use bug spray at dusk; she got many mosquito bites and later became ill with a fever the doctors linked to them.

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**Who acts:** girl, doctors · **What happens:** not use, get, become, link · **To what, where:** bug spray, many mosquito bites, fever, bites

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Heat, sports gear and mosquitoes» 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 (girl, doctors), 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:17
# text = A girl in Florida did not use bug spray at dusk; she got many mosquito bites and later became ill with a fever the doctors linked to them.
# 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): no change
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Florida	Florida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	bug	bug	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	spray	spray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	dusk	dusk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	mosquito	mosquito	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	bites	bite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
20	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
21	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	doctors	doctor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	linked	link	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- 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** **use** | past · do-support | a girl in Florida | bug spray |  |  | dusk |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spray=Patient |
| 2 | **get** | past | girl | many mosquito bites |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bite=Stimulus |
| 3 | **become** | past | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a fever; ill, late *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **link** | past | the doctors | a fever *not said here* | bites *= bite* |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent fever=Patient to they=Co-Patient |

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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:252-heat-equipment-and-mosquitoes.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): no change. **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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