--- title: The adder, with a dark zigzag down its back, is Britain's only venom… — Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers… · tree and pragmatics description: The adder, with a dark zigzag down its back, is Britain's only venomous snake and also lives in Ukraine; it is shy, and deaths from adder bites in Britain are very rare. Who acts: adder, deaths. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (adder, deaths), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:322-snakes-to-keep-away-from-cobras-mambas-vipers-and-rattlesnakes.lesson:16 # text = The adder, with a dark zigzag down its back, is Britain's only venomous snake and also lives in Ukraine; it is shy, and deaths from adder bites in Britain are very rare. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 322-snakes-to-keep-away-from-cobras-mambas-vipers-and-rattlesnakes.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 adder adder NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 zigzag zigzag NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 8 down down ADP IN _ 10 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 9 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 13 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ _ 14 's 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 only only ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 venomous venomous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 also also ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Ukraine Ukraine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 26 shy shy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 parataxis _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 deaths death NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 adder adder NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 bites bite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Britain Britain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 36 very very ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the adder | Britain's venomous snake | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | present | the adder *not said here* | | | Ukraine | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ukraine=Location | | 3 | **is** | present | adder | | | | | shy *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | deaths from adder bites in Britain | | | | | rare *property* | tree rules | 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:322-snakes-to-keep-away-from-cobras-mambas-vipers-and-rattlesnakes.lesson:16`. **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): 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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