Mushrooms and creatures to avoid in the woods: death caps, adders, ticks and hornets, sentence 4
The adder bites only when stepped on or grabbed.
Who acts: adder · What happens: bite, step on, grab
This is a sentence of the lesson «Mushrooms and creatures to avoid in the woods: death caps, adders, ticks and hornets» 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), 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 | 3 bites | nsubj |
| 3 | bites | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 stepped | advmod |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 stepped | mark |
| 6 | stepped | step | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bites | advcl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 stepped | compound:prt |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 grabbed | cc |
| 9 | grabbed | grab | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 stepped | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bites | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | present | the adder | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | step on | participle | the adder not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | grab | participle | the adder not said here | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:393-mushrooms-and-creatures-to-avoid-in-the-woods-death-caps-adders-ticks-and-hornets.lesson:4.
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/393-mushrooms-and-creatures-to-avoid-in-the-woods-death-caps-adders-ticks-and-hornets/4/