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title: If someone is bitten, sucking, cutting, ice and tight bands do not h… — Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers… · tree and pragmatics
description: If someone is bitten, sucking, cutting, ice and tight bands do not help; keep the person calm and still, take off rings and watches, and get help at once, because hospitals have antivenom. Who acts: ice, you, hospitals. A sentence of the lesson «Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and r
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# Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes, sentence 17

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If someone is bitten, sucking, cutting, ice and tight bands do not help; keep the person calm and still, take off rings and watches, and get help at once, because hospitals have antivenom.

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**Who acts:** ice, you, hospitals · **What happens:** bite, suck, cut, not help, keep, take off · **To what, where:** someone, person, rings, help, antivenom

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes» 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 (ice, you, hospitals), 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:17
# text = If someone is bitten, sucking, cutting, ice and tight bands do not help; keep the person calm and still, take off rings and watches, and get help at once, because hospitals have antivenom.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	bitten	bite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	sucking	suck	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bands	band	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
14	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
18	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	still	still	ADV	RB	_	21	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
26	off	off	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	watches	watch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:conj
33	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	once	once	ADV	RB	_	32	obl	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
38	hospitals	hospital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
39	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	_
40	antivenom	antivenom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bite** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | someone |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **suck** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cut** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **help** | present · do-support | ice and tight bands |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | the person |  |  |  | calm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme |
| 6 | **take off** | infinitive | you *not said here* | rings and watches |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme |
| 7 | **get** | infinitive | you *not said here* | help |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent help=Theme at once=Asset |
| 8 | **have** | present | hospitals | antivenom |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antivenom=Patient |

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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.

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**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 ×2. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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