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title: Rodents can carry diseases, so you do not touch a mouse or rat or it… — Respecting wild animals · tree and pragmatics
description: Rodents can carry diseases, so you do not touch a mouse or rat or its droppings. Who acts: Rodents, you. A sentence of the lesson «Respecting wild animals» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Respecting wild animals, sentence 13

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Rodents can carry diseases, so you do not touch a mouse or rat or its droppings.

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**Who acts:** Rodents, you · **What happens:** carry, not touch · **To what, where:** diseases, mouse

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Respecting wild animals» 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 (Rodents, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:070-respecting-wild-animals.lesson:13
# text = Rodents can carry diseases, so you do not touch a mouse or rat or its droppings.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 070-respecting-wild-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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Rodents	rodent	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	diseases	disease	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	droppings	dropping	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
18	.	.	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 | Rodents | diseases |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disease=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **touch** | present · do-support | you | a mouse or rat or rat's droppings |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mouse=Co-Theme |

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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:070-respecting-wild-animals.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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/).

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