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title: Ticks are tiny animals that wait on long grass and bushes and bite t… — Hiking and the outdoors · tree and pragmatics
description: Ticks are tiny animals that wait on long grass and bushes and bite to drink blood; some carry Lyme disease, so a boy hiking in Connecticut wears long trousers tucked into his socks and checks his skin, including behind his knees, in his armpits and in his hair, after the walk. Who acts: Ticks, tiny 
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# Hiking and the outdoors, sentence 3

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Ticks are tiny animals that wait on long grass and bushes and bite to drink blood; some carry Lyme disease, so a boy hiking in Connecticut wears long trousers tucked into his socks and checks his skin, including behind his knees, in his armpits and in his hair, after the walk.

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**Who acts:** Ticks, tiny animals, some, boy · **What happens:** be, wait, bite, drink, carry, hike · **To what, where:** tiny animals, long grass, blood, Lyme disease, Connecticut, long trousers

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Hiking and the outdoors» 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 (Ticks, tiny animals, some, boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:047-hiking-and-the-outdoors.lesson:3
# text = Ticks are tiny animals that wait on long grass and bushes and bite to drink blood; some carry Lyme disease, so a boy hiking in Connecticut wears long trousers tucked into his socks and checks his skin, including behind his knees, in his armpits and in his hair, after the walk.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 047-hiking-and-the-outdoors.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	Ticks	tick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wait	wait	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	bite	bite	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:xcomp
16	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=19:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind
19	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
20	Lyme	Lyme	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=21:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
21	disease	disease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
26	hiking	hike	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Connecticut	Connecticut	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	wears	wear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=19:conj
30	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	trousers	trousers	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	tucked	tuck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
33	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	socks	sock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	checks	check	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	including	include	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	44	case	_	_
42	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	armpits	armpit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	after	after	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is a** | present | Ticks | tiny animals |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wait** | present | tiny animals |  |  | long grass and bushes |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on grass=Location |
| 3 | **bite** | present | tiny animals *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **drink** | to-infinitive | tiny animals *not said here* | blood |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient |
| 5 | **carry** | present | some | Lyme disease |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disease=Theme |
| 6 | **hike** | gerund | a boy *not said here* |  |  | Connecticut |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in connecticut=Trajectory |
| 7 | **wear** | present | a boy | long trousers and boy's knees and boy's armpits and boy's hair and the walk |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent trousers=Source |
| 8 | **tuck** | participle |  | long trousers and boy's knees and boy's armpits and boy's hair and the walk *not said here* |  | boy's socks |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into sock=Destination |
| 9 | **check** | present | a boy *not said here* | boy's skin |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme |
| 10 | **include** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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