--- title: So if you meet a snake on a path, the best thing is the simplest: st… — Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions… · tree and pragmatics description: So if you meet a snake on a path, the best thing is the simplest: stay calm, back away slowly and let it go. Who acts: you, best thing, thing. A sentence of the lesson «Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions and the platypus» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/246-defences-venom-in-snakes-jellyfish-scorpions-and-the-platypus/4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/246-defences-venom-in-snakes-jellyfish-scorpions-and-the-platypus/) / 4 # Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions and the platypus, sentence 4 So if you meet a snake on a path, the best thing is the simplest: stay calm, back away slowly and let it go. **Who acts:** you, best thing, thing · **What happens:** meet, be, stay, let, go · **To what, where:** snake, path, thing This is a sentence of the lesson «Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions and the platypus» of the biology 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 (you, best thing, thing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:246-defences-venom-in-snakes-jellyfish-scorpions-and-the-platypus.lesson:4 # text = So if you meet a snake on a path, the best thing is the simplest: stay calm, back away slowly and let it go. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 246-defences-venom-in-snakes-jellyfish-scorpions-and-the-platypus.lesson # annotation = 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 So so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 2 if if SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 meet meet VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 10 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 amod _ _ 13 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 simplest simple ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 0 root _ _ 17 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 18 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:conj 19 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct 21 back back ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 away away ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 23 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **meet** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | a snake | | a path | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Co-Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | the best thing | | | | | simple *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **stay** | infinitive | | | | | | away, calm *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **let** | infinitive | | thing | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **go** | infinitive | thing *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:246-defences-venom-in-snakes-jellyfish-scorpions-and-the-platypus.lesson:4`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×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. 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