--- title: Rabies is a deadly illness that wild animals can pass on by biting;… — Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours · tree and pragmatics description: Rabies is a deadly illness that wild animals can pass on by biting; a wild animal that walks up to people and seems tame may be sick with it. Who acts: Rabies, wild animals, wild animal. 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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 (Rabies, wild animals, wild animal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:069-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours.lesson:19 # text = Rabies is a deadly illness that wild animals can pass on by biting; a wild animal that walks up to people and seems tame may be sick with it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 069-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours.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 ×1 1 Rabies rabies NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 deadly deadly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 illness illness NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 obj _ _ 7 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 acl:relcl _ _ 11 on on ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 by by SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 biting bite VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 18 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 25 tame tame ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:amod 26 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 cop _ _ 28 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Rabies | a deadly illness | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **pass on** | can | wild animals | a deadly illness | | | | | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | | 3 | **bite** | gerund | wild animals *not said here* | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **walk up** | present | a wild animal | | | | | to people *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to people=Result | | 5 | **seem** | present | a wild animal *not said here* | | | | | tame *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** | may | a wild animal *not said here* | | | | | with illness; sick *property* | tree rules | 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:069-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours.lesson:19`. **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): R5-strong ×1. **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: [Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours/18/) - next →: [Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours, 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours/20/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours/)