Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes, sentence 2
Most venomous snakes would much rather warn you than bite you.
Who acts: Most venomous snakes · What happens: warn, bite · To what, where: you
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 (Most venomous snakes), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 snakes | amod |
| 2 | venomous | venomous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 snakes | amod |
| 3 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 warn | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 warn | aux |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 rather | advmod |
| 6 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 7 warn | advmod |
| 7 | warn | warn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 warn | obj |
| 9 | than | than | CCONJ | _ | 10 bite | cc |
| 10 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 warn | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 bite | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 warn | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warn speech: warn | would | Most venomous snakes | you | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | bite | infinitive | Most venomous snakes not said here | you | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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:2.
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, 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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