--- title: After walking in long grass or woods, check your skin for ticks; if… — Wild birds, bats and germs from animals · tree and pragmatics description: After walking in long grass or woods, check your skin for ticks; if you find one, an adult removes it with fine tweezers, pulling it gently straight out, close to the skin. Who acts: you, adult. 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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 (you, 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:3 # text = After walking in long grass or woods, check your skin for ticks; if you find one, an adult removes it with fine tweezers, pulling it gently straight out, close to the skin. # 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): R5-strong ×2 1 After after SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 walking walk VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 woods wood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 9 check check VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 ticks tick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 15 if if SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ _ 18 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 20 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 removes remove VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 tweezers tweezer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 pulling pull VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 gently gently ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:advmod 31 straight straight ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 out out ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | gerund | you *not said here* | | | long grass or woods | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grass=Trajectory | | 2 | **check** | imperative | you *not said here* | your skin | | | | for ticks | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent skin=Theme for tick=Attribute | | 3 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | one | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | | 4 | **remove** | present | a adult | skin | | | | with fine tweezers | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **pull** | gerund | a adult *not said here* | skin | | | | gently, out *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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. 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