Snakes, spiders and scorpions, sentence 1

These animals do not want to fight a person; most bites happen when someone steps on one, puts a hand where they cannot see, or tries to catch, poke or kill it.

Who acts: animals, most bites, someone, bites · What happens: not want, fight, happen, step, put, not see · To what, where: person, hand

This is a sentence of the lesson «Snakes, spiders and scorpions» 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 (animals, most bites, someone, bites), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 animals	det
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 want	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 want	advmod
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fight	mark
7	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 want	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 person	det
9	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fight	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 happen	punct
11	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 bites	amod
12	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 happen	nsubj
13	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 want	parataxis
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 steps	advmod
15	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 steps	nsubj
16	steps	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 happen	advcl
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 one	case
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 steps	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 puts	punct
20	puts	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 steps	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 hand	det
22	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 puts	obj
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 see	advmod
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 see	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 see	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 see	advmod
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 hand	acl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 tries	punct
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 tries	cc
30	tries	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 see	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 catch	mark
32	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 tries	xcomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 poke	punct
34	poke	poke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 catch	conj
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 kill	cc
36	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 catch	conj
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 kill	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not want	present · do-support	this animals			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	fight not said to happen	to-infinitive	this animals not said here	a person		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Co-Agent
3	happen	present	most bites			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	step	present	someone		on one	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on one=Trajectory
5	put	present	someone not said here	a hand		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal
6	not see	can	bites = bite			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	try	present	bites = bite not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	catch not said to happen	to-infinitive	bites = bite not said here			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	poke	infinitive	bites = bite not said here			vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
10	kill	infinitive	bites = bite not said here	hand		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:everyday:025-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions.lesson:1.

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): R2-punct-next ×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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