Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes, sentence 7
Snakes bite people mostly when they are trodden on, grabbed or cornered.
Who acts: Snakes · What happens: bite, tread on, grab, corner · To what, where: people, snakes
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 (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 | Snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bite | nsubj |
| 2 | bite | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bite | obj |
| 4 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 2 bite | advmod |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 trodden | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 trodden | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 trodden | aux:pass |
| 8 | trodden | tread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 bite | advcl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 trodden | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 grabbed | punct |
| 11 | grabbed | grab | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 trodden | conj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 cornered | cc |
| 13 | cornered | corner | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 grabbed | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bite | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | present | Snakes | people | mostly property | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | |||
| 2 | tread on | present · passive | snakes = snake | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | grab | participle | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | corner | participle | 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:7.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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