Snakes, spiders and scorpions, sentence 11
If you see a snake, stop, back away slowly and give it plenty of room to leave.
Who acts: you · What happens: see, stop, give, leave · To what, where: snake, plenty, 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 (you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 see | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stop | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 snake | det |
| 5 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 7 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 back | punct |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 away | advmod |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 stop | advmod |
| 11 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 10 away | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 give | cc |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 stop | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 give | iobj |
| 15 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 room | case |
| 17 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 plenty | nmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 leave | mark |
| 19 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 room | acl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see a condition, not said to happen | present | you | a snake | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer snake=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stop | imperative | you not said here | away property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | give | infinitive | you not said here | plenty of room | reflex | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient plenty=Theme | |||
| 4 | leave | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:11.
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): R6-punct-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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