Thinking like an animal, sentence 16

A rattlesnake's rattle is a warning that helps it avoid being stepped on and avoid a fight, so it does not waste its venom.

Who acts: rattle, warning, rattlesnake · What happens: be, help, avoid, step on, not waste, rattle · To what, where: warning, fight, venom

This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking like an animal» 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 (rattle, warning, rattlesnake), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 rattlesnake	det
2	rattlesnake	rattlesnake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rattle	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 rattlesnake	case
4	rattle	rattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 warning	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 warning	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 warning	det
7	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 helps	nsubj
9	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 warning	acl:relcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 avoid	nsubj
11	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 helps	xcomp
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 stepped	aux:pass
13	stepped	step	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 avoid	xcomp
14	on	on	ADP	_	13 stepped	compound:prt
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 avoid	cc
16	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 avoid	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 fight	det
18	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 avoid	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 waste	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	24 waste	advmod
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 waste	nsubj
22	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 waste	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 waste	advmod
24	waste	waste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 helps	parataxis
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 venom	nmod:poss
26	venom	venom	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 waste	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 warning	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	a rattlesnake's rattle	a warning	tree rules
2	help	present	a warning		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	avoid	infinitive	rattle		vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	step on	gerund · passive	rattle not said here		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»
5	avoid	infinitive	rattle not said here	a fight	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent fight=Location
6	not waste	present · do-support	rattle	rattle's venom	vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument venom=Patient
7	rattle		a rattlesnake		nom rattle «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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:030-thinking-like-an-animal.lesson:16.

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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