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title: Bats can carry rabies in some places and must only be handled with g… — Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours · tree and pragmatics
description: Bats can carry rabies in some places and must only be handled with gloves by experts. Who acts: Bats, experts. A sentence of the lesson «Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours, sentence 21

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Bats can carry rabies in some places and must only be handled with gloves by experts.

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**Who acts:** Bats, experts · **What happens:** carry, handle · **To what, where:** rabies, places

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours» 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 (Bats, experts), 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:21
# text = Bats can carry rabies in some places and must only be handled with gloves by experts.
# 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): no change
1	Bats	bat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	rabies	rabies	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	handled	handle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	gloves	glove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	experts	expert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl:agent	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **carry** | can | Bats | rabies |  | some places |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rabies=Value in place=Location |
| 2 | **handle** | must · passive | experts |  |  |  |  | with gloves | vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with glove=Instrument |

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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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**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:21`.

**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/).

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