Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshoppers, sentence 13

Only female mosquitoes bite, to get protein for their eggs; the itch is your body reacting to the mosquito's spit, and they find people in the dark by sensing the carbon dioxide gas in their breath, their warmth and their smell.

Who acts: female mosquitoes, itch, body, eyes · What happens: bite, get, be, react, find, sense · To what, where: protein, body, people, dark, dioxide gas, breath

This is a sentence of the lesson «Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshoppers» of the biology 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 (female mosquitoes, itch, body, eyes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 mosquitoes	advmod
2	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mosquitoes	amod
3	mosquitoes	mosquito	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bite	nsubj
4	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct
6	to	to	PART	_	7 get	mark
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bite	advcl
8	protein	protein	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 eggs	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 eggs	nmod:poss
11	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 protein	nmod
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 body	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 itch	det
14	itch	itch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 body	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 body	cop
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 body	nmod:poss
17	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bite	parataxis
18	reacting	react	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 body	acl
19	to	to	ADP	_	23 spit	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 mosquito	det
21	mosquito	mosquito	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 spit	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 mosquito	case
23	spit	spit	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 reacting	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 find	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 find	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 find	nsubj
27	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 bite	conj
28	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 find	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 dark	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 dark	det
31	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 people	nmod
32	by	by	SCONJ	_	33 sensing	mark
33	sensing	sense	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 find	advcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 gas	det
35	carbon	carbon	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 dioxide	compound
36	dioxide	dioxide	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 gas	compound
37	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sensing	obj
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 breath	case
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 breath	nmod:poss
40	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sensing	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 warmth	punct
42	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 warmth	nmod:poss
43	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 find	obl
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 smell	cc
45	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 smell	nmod:poss
46	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 warmth	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bite	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bite	present	female mosquitoes				vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	get	to-infinitive	female mosquitoes not said here	protein		for eyes's eggs	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent protein=Theme for egg=Source
3	is a	present	the itch	your body			tree rules
4	react	gerund	your body not said here			to the mosquito's spit	vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to spit=Theme
5	find	present	eyes = eye	people	the dark	eyes's warmth and eyes's smell obl	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Topic
6	sense	gerund	eyes = eye not said here	the dioxide gas	eyes's breath		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer gas=Stimulus
7	smell		eyes = eye				nom smell «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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, 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:biology:037-butterflies-beetles-flies-mosquitoes-grasshoppers.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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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.

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