Bites, stings and things you find on the ground, sentence 20

A boy in Texas picked up a "dead" snake on a trail; it was alive, bit him, and he was rushed to hospital for antivenom.

Who acts: boy, snake · What happens: pick up, be, bite, rush · To what, where: dead snake, trail, boy, hospital

This is a sentence of the lesson «Bites, stings and things you find on the ground» of the everyday 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 (boy, snake), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 picked	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Texas	case
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 picked	compound:prt
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 snake	det
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 dead	punct
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 snake	amod
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 dead	punct
11	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 picked	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 trail	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 trail	det
14	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 picked	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 alive	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 alive	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 alive	cop
18	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 picked	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bit	punct
20	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 picked	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 bit	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 rushed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 rushed	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 rushed	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 rushed	aux:pass
26	rushed	rush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 picked	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 hospital	case
28	hospital	hospital	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rushed	obl
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 antivenom	case
30	antivenom	antivenom	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 rushed	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 picked	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pick up	past	a boy in Texas	a dead snake	a trail		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Topic
2	is	past	snake			alive property	tree rules
3	bite	past	a boy in Texas not said here	boy			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	rush	past · passive		boy	hospital	for antivenom	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to hospital=Trajectory

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:everyday:238-bites-and-things-you-find.lesson:20.

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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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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