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title: Never touch a bat, even one lying on the ground, or a dead bird or a… — Wild birds, bats and germs from animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Never touch a bat, even one lying on the ground, or a dead bird or animal: tell an adult, who will call a wildlife service or rescue. Who acts: you, one, adult. 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
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# Wild birds, bats and germs from animals, sentence 2

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Never touch a bat, even one lying on the ground, or a dead bird or animal: tell an adult, who will call a wildlife service or rescue.

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**Who acts:** you, one, adult · **What happens:** not touch, lie, tell, call · **To what, where:** bat, dead bird, ground, adult, wildlife service · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, one, adult), 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:2
# text = Never touch a bat, even one lying on the ground, or a dead bird or animal: tell an adult, who will call a wildlife service or rescue.
# 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	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	touch	touch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	even	even	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nsubj	_	_
8	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	advcl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
20	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	wildlife	wildlife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	rescue	rescue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: warn
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=warn

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **touch** | imperative | you *not said here* | a bat |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bat=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **lie** | gerund | one | a dead bird or animal |  | the ground |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive |  |  | a adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 4 | **call** | future | a adult | a wildlife service or rescue |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent service=Recipient |

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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:2`.

**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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