--- title: Gentle brushing in the direction the fur grows removes loose hair an… — Dogs and rabbits in your care · tree and pragmatics description: Gentle brushing in the direction the fur grows removes loose hair and lets you check for ticks and lumps; a tick is a tiny blood-sucking bug that clings to the skin and feels like a small round lump. Who acts: fur, you, tick, tiny sucking bug. 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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 (fur, you, tick, tiny sucking bug), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:062-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care.lesson:13 # text = Gentle brushing in the direction the fur grows removes loose hair and lets you check for ticks and lumps; a tick is a tiny blood-sucking bug that clings to the skin and feels like a small round lump. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 062-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care.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 Gentle gentle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 brushing brush VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 direction direction NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ _ 9 removes remove VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 loose loose ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 check check VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 ticks tick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 lumps lump NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 tick tick NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 25 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 26 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ _ 28 sucking suck VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 amod _ _ 29 bug bug NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ _ 30 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 nsubj _ _ 31 clings cling VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 acl:relcl _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 37 like like ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 40 round round NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 lump lump NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 42 . . 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 | **brush** | gerund | | | | the direction | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in direction=Destination | | 2 | **grow** | present | the fur | the direction *not said here* | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location direction=Theme | | 3 | **remove** | present | | loose hair | | | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme | | 4 | **let** | present | | you | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **check** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | for ticks and lumps | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent for tick=Attribute | | 6 | **suck** | gerund | | | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is a** | present | a tick | a tiny sucking bug | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **cling** | present | a tiny sucking bug | | | | | to the skin | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to skin=Co-Theme | | 9 | **feel** | present | a tiny sucking bug *not said here* | | | | | like a small round lump | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like lump=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:062-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care.lesson:13`. **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: [Dogs and rabbits in your care, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/62-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care/12/) - next →: [Dogs and rabbits in your care, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/62-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/62-dogs-and-rabbits-in-your-care/)