Snakes, spiders and scorpions, sentence 8
Venomous snakes and spiders usually bite only when they are stepped on, touched or cornered.
Who acts: Venomous snakes · What happens: bite, step on, touch, corner · To what, where: snakes
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 (Venomous snakes), 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 | Venomous | venomous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 snakes | amod |
| 2 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bite | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 spiders | cc |
| 4 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 snakes | conj |
| 5 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 6 bite | advmod |
| 6 | bite | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 bite | advmod |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 stepped | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stepped | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 stepped | aux:pass |
| 11 | stepped | step | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 bite | advcl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 stepped | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 touched | punct |
| 14 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 stepped | conj |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 cornered | cc |
| 16 | cornered | corner | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 touched | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bite | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bite | present | Venomous snakes and spiders | usually property | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | step on | present · passive | snakes = snake | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | touch | participle | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | corner | participle | tree rules |
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:8.
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): 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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