Snakes, spiders and scorpions, sentence 10
A snake that looks dead can still bite by reflex, so it must never be touched.
Who acts: snake · What happens: look, bite, not touch · To what, where: reflex
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 (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 snake | det |
| 2 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bite | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 looks | nsubj |
| 4 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 snake | acl:relcl |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 looks | xcomp |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 bite | aux |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 bite | advmod |
| 8 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 reflex | case |
| 10 | reflex | reflex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bite | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 touched | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 touched | advmod |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 touched | aux |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 touched | advmod |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 touched | aux:pass |
| 17 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 bite | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bite | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | a snake | dead property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | bite | can | a snake | still | by reflex | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by reflex=Location | |||
| 3 | not touch | must · passive | reflex | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-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:10.
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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