--- title: Most venomous snakes would much rather warn you than bite you. — Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers… · tree and pragmatics description: Most venomous snakes would much rather warn you than bite you. Who acts: Most venomous snakes. A sentence of the lesson «Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/322-snakes-to-keep-away-from-cobras-mambas-vipers-and-rattlesnakes/2/) [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/) / [Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mamb…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/322-snakes-to-keep-away-from-cobras-mambas-vipers-and-rattlesnakes/) / 2 # Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes, sentence 2 Most venomous snakes would much rather warn you than bite you. **Who acts:** Most venomous snakes · **What happens:** warn, bite · **To what, where:** you 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 (Most venomous snakes), 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:2 # text = Most venomous snakes would much rather warn you than bite you. # 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 2 venomous venomous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 4 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 much much ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:advmod 6 rather rather ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 warn warn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:iobj 9 than than CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 bite bite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **warn** *speech: warn* | would | Most venomous snakes | | you | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 2 | **bite** | infinitive | Most venomous snakes *not said here* | you | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | 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:2`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mamb…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/322-snakes-to-keep-away-from-cobras-mambas-vipers-and-rattlesnakes/1/) - next →: [Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mamb…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/322-snakes-to-keep-away-from-cobras-mambas-vipers-and-rattlesnakes/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/322-snakes-to-keep-away-from-cobras-mambas-vipers-and-rattlesnakes/)