Snakes, spiders and scorpions, sentence 5
In Australia, adults are taught to wrap a firm pressure bandage over a snake or funnel-web bite and the whole limb and keep it still, because this slows the venom moving through the body.
Who acts: adults, this, venom · What happens: teach, wrap, keep, slow, move · To what, where: adults, Australia, firm pressure bandage, adult, venom, body
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 (adults, this, venom), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Australia | case |
| 2 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 taught | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Australia | punct |
| 4 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 taught | aux:pass |
| 6 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 wrap | mark |
| 8 | wrap | wrap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 taught | xcomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bandage | det |
| 10 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bandage | amod |
| 11 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bandage | compound |
| 12 | bandage | bandage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wrap | obj |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 snake | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 snake | det |
| 15 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wrap | obl |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 bite | cc |
| 17 | funnel | funnel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 web | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 funnel | punct |
| 19 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bite | compound |
| 20 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 snake | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 limb | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 limb | det |
| 23 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 limb | amod |
| 24 | limb | limb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bite | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 keep | cc |
| 26 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 wrap | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 keep | obj |
| 28 | still | still | ADV | _ | 26 keep | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 slows | punct |
| 30 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 32 slows | mark |
| 31 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 slows | nsubj |
| 32 | slows | slow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 keep | advcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 venom | det |
| 34 | venom | venom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 slows | obj |
| 35 | moving | move | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 venom | acl |
| 36 | through | through | ADP | _ | 38 body | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 body | det |
| 38 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 moving | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 taught | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | present · passive | adults | Australia | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | wrap | to-infinitive | adults not said here | a firm pressure bandage | over a snake or web bite and the whole limb | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bandage=Theme over snake=Destination | |||
| 3 | keep | infinitive | adults not said here | adult | still | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | slow | present | this | the venom | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent venom=Patient | ||||
| 5 | move | gerund | the venom not said here | the body | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through body=Trajectory |
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:5.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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