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title: Ticks are tiny biters that live in long grass and woods and can spre… — Wild birds, bats and germs from animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Ticks are tiny biters that live in long grass and woods and can spread Lyme disease. Who acts: Ticks, tiny biters. A sentence of the lesson «Wild birds, bats and germs from animals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Wild birds, bats and germs from animals, sentence 14

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Ticks are tiny biters that live in long grass and woods and can spread Lyme disease.

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**Who acts:** Ticks, tiny biters · **What happens:** be, live, spread · **To what, where:** tiny biters, long grass, Lyme disease

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Wild birds, bats and germs from animals» 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 (Ticks, tiny biters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:029-germs-from-animals.lesson:14
# text = Ticks are tiny biters that live in long grass and woods and can spread Lyme disease.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 029-germs-from-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): R1-cc-next ×2
1	Ticks	tick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	biters	biter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=9:cc
11	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
15	Lyme	lyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	disease	disease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is a** | present | Ticks | tiny biters |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | present | tiny biters |  |  | long grass and woods |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grass=Location |
| 3 | **spread** | can | tiny biters *not said here* | Lyme disease |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location disease=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:029-germs-from-animals.lesson:14`.

**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 ×2. **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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