Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours, sentence 0
Most spiders and snakes are harmless and even helpful, but a few have strong venom, so the safe rule everywhere is: do not touch, give them space, and tell an adult.
Who acts: Most spiders, few, safe rule · What happens: be, have, not touch, give, tell · To what, where: strong venom, space, spiders, adult · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours» 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 (Most spiders, few, safe rule), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 spiders | amod |
| 2 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 harmless | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 snakes | cc |
| 4 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 spiders | conj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 harmless | cop |
| 6 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 helpful | cc |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 helpful | advmod |
| 9 | helpful | helpful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 harmless | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 have | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 few | det |
| 13 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 have | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 harmless | conj |
| 15 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 venom | amod |
| 16 | venom | venom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 have | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 is | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 is | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 rule | det |
| 20 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 rule | amod |
| 21 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 is | nsubj |
| 22 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 21 rule | advmod |
| 23 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 harmless | conj |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 is | punct |
| 25 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 27 touch | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 touch | advmod |
| 27 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 is | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 give | punct |
| 29 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 27 touch | conj |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 give | iobj |
| 31 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 give | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 tell | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 give | cc |
| 34 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 27 touch | conj |
| 35 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 adult | det |
| 36 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 tell | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 harmless | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Most spiders and snakes | harmless property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Most spiders and snakes not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | have | present | a few | strong venom | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venom=Patient | ||||
| 4 | be | present | the safe rule | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not touch | infinitive · do-support | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | give | infinitive | space | spiders = spider | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient space=Theme | ||||
| 7 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | a adult | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
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:069-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours.lesson:0.
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 ×2, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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.
See the release 0.4.
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