Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours, sentence 25
A teenager in Arizona picked up a rattlesnake to show his friends; it bit his hand, and he spent days in hospital while doctors treated the swelling.
Who acts: teenager, rattlesnake, doctors · What happens: pick up, show, bite, spend, treat · To what, where: rattlesnake, friends, hand, hospital, swelling
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 (teenager, rattlesnake, doctors), 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 teenager | det |
| 2 | teenager | teenager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 picked | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Arizona | case |
| 4 | Arizona | Arizona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 teenager | nmod |
| 5 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 picked | compound:prt |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 rattlesnake | det |
| 8 | rattlesnake | rattlesnake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 picked | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 show | mark |
| 10 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 picked | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 friends | nmod:poss |
| 12 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 show | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 bit | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bit | nsubj |
| 15 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 picked | parataxis |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hand | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bit | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 spent | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 spent | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 spent | nsubj |
| 21 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 picked | conj |
| 22 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 spent | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 hospital | case |
| 24 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spent | obl |
| 25 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 27 treated | mark |
| 26 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 treated | nsubj |
| 27 | treated | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 spent | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 swelling | det |
| 29 | swelling | swelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 treated | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | a teenager in Arizona | a rattlesnake | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rattlesnake=Topic | ||||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | a teenager in Arizona not said here | teenager's friends | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | bite | past | rattlesnake | teenager's hand | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | ||||
| 4 | spend | past | teenager | hospital | day | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | treat | past | doctors | the swelling | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent swelling=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:25.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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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