--- title: Picture a walker on a heath who sees an adder sunbathing on the path… — Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers… · tree and pragmatics description: Picture a walker on a heath who sees an adder sunbathing on the path: the best plan is simply to stop, step back and go round it. Who acts: you, heath, adder, best plan. 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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 (you, heath, adder, best plan), 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:6 # text = Picture a walker on a heath who sees an adder sunbathing on the path: the best plan is simply to stop, step back and go round it. # 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 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 walker walker NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 heath heath NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 7 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 adder adder NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 sunbathing sunbathing VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 acl _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 18 amod _ _ 18 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 simply simply ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 step step VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 25 back back ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 28 round round ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:obj 30 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **picture** | imperative | you *not said here* | a walker | | a heath | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent walker=Theme | | 2 | **see** | present | a heath | a adder | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer adder=Stimulus | | 3 | **sunbathing** | gerund | a adder *not said here* | | | the path | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** | present | the best plan | | | | | simply, stop *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **step back** | infinitive | the best plan *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **go round** | infinitive | the best plan *not said here* | plan | | | | round *property* | 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:322-snakes-to-keep-away-from-cobras-mambas-vipers-and-rattlesnakes.lesson:6`. **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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