Snakes, spiders and scorpions, sentence 16
Never cut a bite, suck out venom or tie a tight cord around the limb.
Who acts: you · What happens: not cut, suck out, tie · To what, where: bite, venom, tight cord, limb
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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 cut | advmod |
| 2 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bite | det |
| 4 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cut | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 suck | punct |
| 6 | suck | suck | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 cut | conj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 suck | compound:prt |
| 8 | venom | venom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 suck | obj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 tie | cc |
| 10 | tie | tie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 cut | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cord | det |
| 12 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cord | amod |
| 13 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tie | obj |
| 14 | around | around | ADP | _ | 16 limb | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 limb | det |
| 16 | limb | limb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tie | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cut | imperative | you not said here | a bite | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bite=Product | ||||
| 2 | suck out | infinitive | you not said here | venom | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent venom=Source | ||||
| 3 | tie | infinitive | you not said here | a tight cord | the limb | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Patient |
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:16.
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): R3-conj-first ×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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