Snakes, spiders and scorpions, sentence 9
Rattlesnakes live in Arizona, Texas and many other parts of the USA, and they do not always rattle before they strike.
Who acts: Rattlesnakes · What happens: live, not rattle, strike · To what, where: Arizona
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 (Rattlesnakes), 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 | Rattlesnakes | rattlesnake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 live | nsubj |
| 2 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Arizona | case |
| 4 | Arizona | Arizona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 live | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Texas | punct |
| 6 | Texas | Texas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Arizona | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 parts | cc |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 parts | amod |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 parts | amod |
| 10 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Arizona | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 USA | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 USA | det |
| 13 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 parts | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rattle | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 rattle | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 rattle | nsubj |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 rattle | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 rattle | advmod |
| 19 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 rattle | advmod |
| 20 | rattle | rattle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 live | conj |
| 21 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 23 strike | mark |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 strike | nsubj |
| 23 | strike | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 rattle | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 live | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Rattlesnakes | Arizona and Texas and many other parts of the USA | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in arizona=Location | ||||
| 2 | not rattle | present · do-support | rattlesnakes = rattlesnake | always property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | strike | present | rattlesnakes = rattlesnake | vn sound_emission-43.2 «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:9.
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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