--- title: A boy in California picked up a bat lying on the ground; it bit him,… — Wild birds, bats and germs from animals · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in California picked up a bat lying on the ground; it bit him, and he needed a series of injections to protect him from rabies. Who acts: boy, bat, ground. 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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 (boy, bat, ground), 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:7 # text = A boy in California picked up a bat lying on the ground; it bit him, and he needed a series of injections to protect him from rabies. # 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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 California California PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 picked pick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 bat bat NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 bit bite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 series series NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 injections injection NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 protect protect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 rabies rabies NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pick up** | past | a boy in California | a bat | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bat=Topic | | 2 | **lie** | gerund | a bat *not said here* | | | the ground | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location | | 3 | **bite** | past | ground | boy | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 4 | **need** | past | boy | a series of injections | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot series=Theme | | 5 | **protect** | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* | | boy | | | from rabies | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary from rabies=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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:029-germs-from-animals.lesson:7`. **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/). - ← previous: [Wild birds, bats and germs from animals, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/29-germs-from-animals/6/) - next →: [Wild birds, bats and germs from animals, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/29-germs-from-animals/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/29-germs-from-animals/)