Snakes, spiders and scorpions, sentence 18
The adder is the only venomous snake that lives wild in Britain, and its bite needs a hospital visit.
Who acts: adder, only venomous snake, bite · What happens: be, live, need, bite · To what, where: only venomous snake, Britain, hospital visit
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 (adder, only venomous snake, bite), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 adder | det |
| 2 | adder | adder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 snake | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 snake | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 snake | det |
| 5 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 snake | amod |
| 6 | venomous | venomous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 snake | amod |
| 7 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 lives | nsubj |
| 9 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 snake | acl:relcl |
| 10 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lives | xcomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 Britain | case |
| 12 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 lives | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 needs | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 needs | cc |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 bite | nmod:poss |
| 16 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 needs | nsubj |
| 17 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 lives | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 visit | det |
| 19 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 visit | compound |
| 20 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 needs | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 snake | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the adder | the only venomous snake | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | present | the only venomous snake | Britain | wild property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in britain=Location | |||
| 3 | need | present | adder's bite | a hospital visit | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot visit=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bite | adder | nom bite «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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:18.
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): no change. 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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