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title: Mosquitoes can spread diseases such as West Nile virus and dengue in… — Heat, sports gear and mosquitoes · tree and pragmatics
description: Mosquitoes can spread diseases such as West Nile virus and dengue in some places, so spray, long sleeves and nets matter. Who acts: Mosquitoes. A sentence of the lesson «Heat, sports gear and mosquitoes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Heat, sports gear and mosquitoes, sentence 19

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Mosquitoes can spread diseases such as West Nile virus and dengue in some places, so spray, long sleeves and nets matter.

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**Who acts:** Mosquitoes · **What happens:** spread, spray, matter · **To what, where:** diseases, places

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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 (Mosquitoes), 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:19
# text = Mosquitoes can spread diseases such as West Nile virus and dengue in some places, so spray, long sleeves and nets matter.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Mosquitoes	mosquito	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	diseases	disease	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	9	case	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Nile	Nile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	virus	virus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	dengue	dengue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
17	spray	spray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	nsubj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	sleeves	sleeve	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	matter	matter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **spread** | can | Mosquitoes | diseases |  | some places |  | such Nile virus and dengue | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent disease=Theme in place=Destination |
| 2 | **spray** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **matter** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:19`.

**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): 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/).

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