Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours, sentence 26

Most snake bites happen when people try to catch, kill or pick up a snake, not when they leave it alone.

Who acts: Most snake bites, people · What happens: happen, try, catch, kill, pick up, not leave · To what, where: snake, bite

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 snake bites, people), 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	3 bites	amod
2	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bites	compound
3	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 happen	nsubj
4	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 try	advmod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 try	nsubj
7	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 catch	mark
9	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 try	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 kill	punct
11	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 catch	conj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 pick	cc
13	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 catch	conj
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 pick	compound:prt
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 snake	det
16	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pick	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 leave	punct
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 leave	advmod
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 leave	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 leave	nsubj
21	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	advcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 leave	obj
23	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 leave	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	present	Most snake bites			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	try	present	people			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	catch not said to happen	to-infinitive	people not said here			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	kill	infinitive	people not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	pick up	infinitive	people not said here	a snake		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Topic
6	not leave	present	people	bite	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:069-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours.lesson:26.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-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.

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