Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes, sentence 16

The adder, with a dark zigzag down its back, is Britain's only venomous snake and also lives in Ukraine; it is shy, and deaths from adder bites in Britain are very rare.

Who acts: adder, deaths · What happens: be, live · To what, where: venomous snake, Ukraine

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 (adder, deaths), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 adder	det
2	adder	adder	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 snake	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 zigzag	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 zigzag	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 zigzag	det
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 zigzag	amod
7	zigzag	zigzag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 adder	appos
8	down	down	ADP	_	10 back	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 back	nmod:poss
10	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 zigzag	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 adder	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 snake	cop
13	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 snake	nmod:poss
14	's	's	PART	_	13 Britain	case
15	only	only	ADV	_	16 venomous	advmod
16	venomous	venomous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 snake	amod
17	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 lives	cc
19	also	also	ADV	_	20 lives	advmod
20	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 snake	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 Ukraine	case
22	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 lives	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 shy	punct
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 shy	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 shy	cop
26	shy	shy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 snake	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 rare	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 deaths	cc
29	deaths	death	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 rare	nsubj
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 bites	case
31	adder	adder	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 bites	compound
32	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 deaths	nmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 Britain	case
34	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 bites	nmod
35	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 rare	cop
36	very	very	ADV	_	37 rare	advmod
37	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 shy	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 snake	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the adder	Britain's venomous snake			tree rules
2	live	present	the adder not said here		Ukraine		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ukraine=Location
3	is	present	adder			shy property	tree rules
4	is	present	deaths from adder bites in Britain			rare property	tree rules

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:16.

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): 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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