--- title: Snakes bite people mostly when they are trodden on, grabbed or corne… — Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers… · tree and pragmatics description: Snakes bite people mostly when they are trodden on, grabbed or cornered. Who acts: 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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes, sentence 7 Snakes bite people mostly when they are trodden on, grabbed or cornered. **Who acts:** Snakes · **What happens:** bite, tread on, grab, corner · **To what, where:** people, snakes 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 (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:7 # text = Snakes bite people mostly when they are trodden on, grabbed or cornered. # 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): no change 1 Snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 bite bite VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 trodden tread VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 advcl _ _ 9 on on ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 grabbed grab VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 cornered corner VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ _ 14 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **bite** | present | Snakes | people | | | | mostly *property* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | | 2 | **tread on** | present · passive | | snakes *= snake* | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **grab** | participle | | | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **corner** | participle | | | | | | | 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:7`. **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): no change. **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…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/322-snakes-to-keep-away-from-cobras-mambas-vipers-and-rattlesnakes/6/) - next →: [Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mamb…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/322-snakes-to-keep-away-from-cobras-mambas-vipers-and-rattlesnakes/8/) - ↑ 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/)