Snakes, spiders and scorpions, sentence 15
Keep a bitten person calm and still, because moving around helps the venom spread.
Who acts: you, moving, venom · What happens: keep, bite, move around, help, spread · To what, where: bitten person
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, moving, venom), 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 | Keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 person | det |
| 3 | bitten | bite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 person | amod |
| 4 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Keep | obj |
| 5 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Keep | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 still | cc |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 calm | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 helps | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 helps | mark |
| 10 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 helps | csubj |
| 11 | around | around | ADV | _ | 10 moving | advmod |
| 12 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Keep | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 venom | det |
| 14 | venom | venom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spread | nsubj |
| 15 | spread | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 helps | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Keep | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | imperative | you not said here | a bitten person | calm property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme | |||
| 2 | bite | participle | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | move around | gerund | around property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | help | present | moving | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | spread | infinitive | the venom | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:15.
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): R8-pos-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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