Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours, sentence 27
Antivenom given quickly in hospital saves almost everyone bitten by a dangerous snake or spider, which is why calling for help at once matters.
Who acts: Antivenom, calling · What happens: give, save, bite, be, call, matter · To what, where: Antivenom, hospital, everyone · 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 (Antivenom, calling), 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 | Antivenom | antivenom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saves | nsubj |
| 2 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Antivenom | acl |
| 3 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 2 given | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 hospital | case |
| 5 | hospital | hospital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 given | obl |
| 6 | saves | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 8 everyone | advmod |
| 8 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 saves | obj |
| 9 | bitten | bite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 everyone | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 snake | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 snake | det |
| 12 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 snake | amod |
| 13 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bitten | obl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 spider | cc |
| 15 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 snake | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 saves | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 why | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 why | cop |
| 19 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 saves | parataxis |
| 20 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 matters | csubj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 help | case |
| 22 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 calling | obl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 matters | case |
| 24 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 25 matters | case |
| 25 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 why | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saves | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | participle | Antivenom not said here | hospital | quickly property | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | save | present | Antivenom | everyone | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bite | participle | by a dangerous snake or spider | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | why property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | call | gerund | for help | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient | |||||
| 6 | matter | present | calling | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
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:27.
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): 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.
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