Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions and the platypus, sentence 4

So if you meet a snake on a path, the best thing is the simplest: stay calm, back away slowly and let it go.

Who acts: you, best thing, thing · What happens: meet, be, stay, let, go · To what, where: snake, path, thing

This is a sentence of the lesson «Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions and the platypus» 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 (you, best thing, thing), 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	So	so	ADV	_	16 simplest	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 meet	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 meet	nsubj
4	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 simplest	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 snake	det
6	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 meet	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 path	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 path	det
9	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 meet	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 meet	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 thing	det
12	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 thing	amod
13	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 simplest	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 simplest	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 simplest	det
16	simplest	simple	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 stay	punct
18	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 simplest	parataxis
19	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 stay	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 back	punct
21	back	back	ADV	_	22 away	advmod
22	away	away	ADV	_	18 stay	advmod
23	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	22 away	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 let	cc
25	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 stay	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 let	obj
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 let	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 simplest	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	meet a condition, not said to happen	present	you	a snake	a path		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Co-Agent
2	is	present	the best thing			simple property	tree rules
3	stay	infinitive				away, calm property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	let	infinitive		thing			tree rules
5	go	infinitive	thing not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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, 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:246-defences-venom-in-snakes-jellyfish-scorpions-and-the-platypus.lesson:4.

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, R6-punct-agree ×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.

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