Snakes, spiders and scorpions, sentence 4
If someone is bitten, call the emergency number, keep them calm and still and keep the bitten arm or leg still; never cut the bite, suck it or tie it tight with a cord.
Who acts: you · What happens: bite, call, keep, not cut, suck, tie · To what, where: someone, emergency number, shoes, bitten arm, bite, number · 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 (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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 bitten | mark |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 bitten | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 bitten | aux:pass |
| 4 | bitten | bite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 call | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bitten | punct |
| 6 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 number | det |
| 8 | emergency | emergency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 number | compound |
| 9 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 call | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 keep | punct |
| 11 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 call | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 keep | obj |
| 13 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 keep | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 still | cc |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 calm | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 keep | cc |
| 17 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 call | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 arm | det |
| 19 | bitten | bite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 arm | amod |
| 20 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 keep | obj |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 leg | cc |
| 22 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 arm | conj |
| 23 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 leg | advmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 cut | punct |
| 25 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 26 cut | advmod |
| 26 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 call | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bite | det |
| 28 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cut | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 suck | punct |
| 30 | suck | suck | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 26 cut | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 suck | obj |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 tie | cc |
| 33 | tie | tie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 30 suck | conj |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 tie | obj |
| 35 | tight | tight | ADV | _ | 33 tie | advmod |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 cord | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 cord | det |
| 38 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 tie | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 call | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | someone | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | call speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | the emergency number | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent number=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | keep | infinitive | you not said here | shoes = shoe | calm property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 4 | keep | infinitive | you not said here | the bitten arm or leg | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bite | participle | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | not cut | infinitive | the bite | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bite=Product | |||||
| 7 | suck | infinitive | number | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 8 | tie | infinitive | number | with a cord; tight property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient with cord=Co-Patient |
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:4.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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