Snakes, spiders and scorpions, sentence 20
Many snake bites happen when people try to catch, move or kill the snake.
Who acts: Many snake bites, people · What happens: happen, try, catch, move, kill · To what, where: snake
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 (Many snake bites, people), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bites | amod |
| 2 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bites | compound |
| 3 | bites | bite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 happen | nsubj |
| 4 | happen | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 try | mark |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 try | nsubj |
| 7 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 happen | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 catch | mark |
| 9 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 try | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 move | punct |
| 11 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 catch | conj |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 kill | cc |
| 13 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 move | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 snake | det |
| 15 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 kill | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happen | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | Many snake bites | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | try | present | people | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | catch not said to happen | to-infinitive | people not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | move | infinitive | people not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | kill | infinitive | people not said here | the snake | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=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:20.
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): R7-rel-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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