--- title: A frightened small animal bites or scratches to protect itself, and… — Being gentle with small animals · tree and pragmatics description: A frightened small animal bites or scratches to protect itself, and those bites can become infected, so you wash a bite or scratch, cover it and tell an adult. Who acts: frightened small animal, bites, you. 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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 (frightened small animal, bites, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:288-being-gentle-with-small-animals.lesson:22 # text = A frightened small animal bites or scratches to protect itself, and those bites can become infected, so you wash a bite or scratch, cover it and tell an adult. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 288-being-gentle-with-small-animals.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 3 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 bites bite VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 scratches scratch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ _ 10 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 9 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 13 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 14 det _ _ 14 bites bite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 become become VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 17 infected infected ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 wash wash VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 bite bite NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 scratch scratch NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 cover cover VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:parataxis 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 31 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **frighten** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **bite** | present | a frightened small animal | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **scratch** | present | a frightened small animal *not said here* | | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **protect** | to-infinitive | a frightened small animal *not said here* | leg | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Beneficiary | | 5 | **become** | can | that bites | | | | | infected *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **wash** | present | you | a bite or scratch | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Patient | | 7 | **cover** | infinitive | you *not said here* | leg | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | | 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | a adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | 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:288-being-gentle-with-small-animals.lesson:22`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Being gentle with small animals, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/288-being-gentle-with-small-animals/21/) - next →: [Teeth, bath time, eyes, dressing, slee…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/289-teeth-bath-sleep-and-safe-food/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/288-being-gentle-with-small-animals/)