Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours, sentence 14
Sucking or cutting a snake bite does not work and causes harm.
Who acts: Sucking · What happens: suck, cut, not work, cause · To what, where: snake bite, harm
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 (Sucking), 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 | Sucking | suck | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 work | csubj |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 cutting | cc |
| 3 | cutting | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Sucking | conj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bite | det |
| 5 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bite | compound |
| 6 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cutting | obj |
| 7 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 work | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 work | advmod |
| 9 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 causes | cc |
| 11 | causes | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 work | conj |
| 12 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 causes | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 work | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suck | gerund | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | cut | gerund | a snake bite | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bite=Product | |||||
| 3 | not work | present · do-support | Sucking | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | cause | present | Sucking not said here | harm | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition harm=Patient |
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:14.
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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