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title: Bats can carry rabies, a disease that is deadly once symptoms start… — Wild birds, bats and germs from animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Bats can carry rabies, a disease that is deadly once symptoms start but can be prevented with injections given soon after a bite. Who acts: Bats, symptoms. 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 
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# Wild birds, bats and germs from animals, sentence 21

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Bats can carry rabies, a disease that is deadly once symptoms start but can be prevented with injections given soon after a bite.

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**Who acts:** Bats, symptoms · **What happens:** carry, be, prevent, give · **To what, where:** rabies, injections

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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 (Bats, symptoms), 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:21
# text = Bats can carry rabies, a disease that is deadly once symptoms start but can be prevented with injections given soon after a bite.
# 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	Bats	bat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	rabies	rabies	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	disease	disease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	symptoms	symptom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	start	start	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	prevented	prevent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	injections	injection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
22	after	after	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **carry** | can | Bats | rabies |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rabies=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | symptoms |  |  |  |  | start *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **prevent** | can · passive | Bats *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with injections | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING» |
| 4 | **give** | participle |  | injections *not said here* |  |  | after a bite | soon *property* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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:21`.

**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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