Snakes, spiders and scorpions, sentence 3
Prevention is simple: stay on paths, wear shoes and long trousers in the bush or desert, look before you put hands under rocks and logs, and shake out shoes and clothes left outside.
Who acts: Prevention, you · What happens: be, stay, wear, look, put, shake out · To what, where: paths, shoes, bush, hands, rocks
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 (Prevention, 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 | Prevention | prevention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 simple | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 simple | cop |
| 3 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 stay | punct |
| 5 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 simple | parataxis |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 paths | case |
| 7 | paths | path | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stay | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wear | punct |
| 9 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stay | conj |
| 10 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wear | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 trousers | cc |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 trousers | amod |
| 13 | trousers | trousers | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 shoes | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 bush | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bush | det |
| 16 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wear | obl |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 desert | cc |
| 18 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bush | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 look | punct |
| 20 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stay | conj |
| 21 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 23 put | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 put | nsubj |
| 23 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 look | advcl |
| 24 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 put | obj |
| 25 | under | under | ADP | _ | 26 rocks | case |
| 26 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 put | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 logs | cc |
| 28 | logs | log | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 rocks | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 shake | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 shake | cc |
| 31 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stay | conj |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 shake | compound:prt |
| 33 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 shake | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 clothes | cc |
| 35 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 33 shoes | conj |
| 36 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 shoes | acl |
| 37 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 36 left | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 simple | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Prevention | simple property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stay | infinitive | paths | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on path=Location | |||||
| 3 | wear | infinitive | shoes and long trousers | the bush or desert | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme | ||||
| 4 | look | infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | put | present | you | hands | rocks and logs | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme under rock=Destination | |||
| 6 | shake out | infinitive | shoes and clothes | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient | |||||
| 7 | leave | participle | shoes and clothes not said here | outside property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:3.
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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-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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