Snakes, spiders and scorpions, sentence 21
A snake bite is an emergency: keep the person still and call for help at once.
Who acts: snake bite · What happens: be, keep, call · To what, where: emergency, person · 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 (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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bite | det |
| 2 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bite | compound |
| 3 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 emergency | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 emergency | cop |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 emergency | det |
| 6 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 keep | punct |
| 8 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 emergency | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 person | det |
| 10 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 keep | obj |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 keep | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 call | cc |
| 13 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 keep | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 help | case |
| 15 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 call | obl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 once | case |
| 17 | once | once | ADV | _ | 13 call | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 emergency | 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 | a snake bite | a emergency | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | infinitive | the person | still | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | infinitive | for help | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at once=Stimulus |
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:21.
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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