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title: Check your skin for ticks after walks in long grass or woods. — Wild birds, bats and germs from animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Check your skin for ticks after walks in long grass or woods. Who acts: you. 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 15

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Check your skin for ticks after walks in long grass or woods.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** check · **To what, where:** skin, long grass

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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 (you), 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:15
# text = Check your skin for ticks after walks in long grass or woods.
# 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): no change
1	Check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	ticks	tick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	walks	walk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **check** | imperative | you *not said here* | your skin |  | long grass or woods | after walks | for ticks | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent skin=Theme for tick=Attribute |

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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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**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.

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