Snakes, spiders and scorpions, sentence 2

The rule is the same everywhere: if you see one, stop, back away slowly, never touch it, even if it looks dead, and tell an adult.

Who acts: rule, you · What happens: be, see, stop, not touch, look, tell · To what, where: one, rule, adult · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (rule, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rule	det
2	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 same	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 same	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 same	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 same	advmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 see	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
10	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 stop	advcl
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 see	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stop	punct
13	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 same	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 back	punct
15	back	back	ADV	_	16 away	advmod
16	away	away	ADV	_	13 stop	advmod
17	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	16 away	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 touch	punct
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 touch	advmod
20	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 stop	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 touch	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 looks	punct
23	even	even	ADV	_	26 looks	advmod
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 looks	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 looks	nsubj
26	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 touch	advcl
27	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 looks	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 tell	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 tell	cc
30	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 stop	parataxis
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 adult	det
32	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tell	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 same	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the rule			everywhere, same property	tree rules
2	see a condition, not said to happen	present	you	one			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
3	stop	infinitive				away property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	not touch	infinitive		rule			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
5	look a condition, not said to happen	present	rule			dead property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	tell speech: assert	infinitive			a adult		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

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:2.

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, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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