Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes, sentence 15
Some cobras can squirt venom from their fangs towards the eyes of an animal that threatens them; venom in the eyes must be washed out with lots of water and a doctor seen at once.
Who acts: cobras, animal · What happens: squirt, threaten, wash out, see · To what, where: venom, fangs, Cobras, doctor
This is a sentence of the lesson «Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes» 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 (cobras, animal), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 cobras | det |
| 2 | cobras | cobra | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 squirt | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 squirt | aux |
| 4 | squirt | squirt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | venom | venom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 squirt | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 fangs | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 fangs | nmod:poss |
| 8 | fangs | fang | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 squirt | obl |
| 9 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 11 eyes | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 eyes | det |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 squirt | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 animal | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 animal | det |
| 14 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 eyes | nmod |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 threatens | nsubj |
| 16 | threatens | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 animal | acl:relcl |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 threatens | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 venom | punct |
| 19 | venom | venom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 washed | nsubj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 eyes | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 eyes | det |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 venom | nmod |
| 23 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 washed | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 washed | aux:pass |
| 25 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 squirt | parataxis |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 washed | compound:prt |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 lots | case |
| 28 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 washed | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 water | case |
| 30 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lots | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 seen | cc |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 doctor | det |
| 33 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 washed | conj |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 once | case |
| 36 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 34 seen | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 squirt | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squirt | can | some cobras | venom | Cobras's fangs | towards the eyes of a animal | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent venom=Theme | ||
| 2 | threaten | present | a animal | Cobras = cobra | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | wash out | must · passive | venom in the eyes | with lots of water | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with lot=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | see | participle · passive | a doctor | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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:322-snakes-to-keep-away-from-cobras-mambas-vipers-and-rattlesnakes.lesson:15.
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.
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