Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes, sentence 6

Picture a walker on a heath who sees an adder sunbathing on the path: the best plan is simply to stop, step back and go round it.

Who acts: you, heath, adder, best plan · What happens: picture, see, sunbathing, be, step back, go round · To what, where: walker, heath, adder, path, plan

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 (you, heath, adder, best plan), 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	Picture	picture	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 walker	det
3	walker	walker	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 heath	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 heath	det
6	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Picture	obl
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 sees	nsubj
8	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 heath	acl:relcl
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 adder	det
10	adder	adder	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sees	obj
11	sunbathing	sunbathing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 adder	acl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 path	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 path	det
14	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sunbathing	obl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 stop	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 plan	det
17	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 plan	amod
18	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stop	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 stop	cop
20	simply	simply	ADV	_	22 stop	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 stop	mark
22	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Picture	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 step	punct
24	step	step	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 stop	conj
25	back	back	ADV	_	24 step	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 go	cc
27	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 stop	conj
28	round	round	ADV	_	27 go	advmod
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 go	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Picture	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	picture	imperative	you not said here	a walker	a heath		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent walker=Theme
2	see	present	a heath	a adder			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer adder=Stimulus
3	sunbathing	gerund	a adder not said here		the path		tree rules
4	is	present	the best plan			simply, stop property	tree rules
5	step back	infinitive	the best plan not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	go round	infinitive	the best plan not said here	plan		round property	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:322-snakes-to-keep-away-from-cobras-mambas-vipers-and-rattlesnakes.lesson:6.

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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