--- title: A boy in Texas picked up a "dead" snake on a trail; it was alive, bi… — Bites, stings and things you find on the ground · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Texas picked up a "dead" snake on a trail; it was alive, bit him, and he was rushed to hospital for antivenom. Who acts: boy, snake. 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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 (boy, snake), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:238-bites-and-things-you-find.lesson:20 # text = A boy in Texas picked up a "dead" snake on a trail; it was alive, bit him, and he was rushed to hospital for antivenom. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 238-bites-and-things-you-find.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Texas Texas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 picked pick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 9 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 11 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 trail trail NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 alive alive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 20 bit bite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux:pass _ _ 26 rushed rush VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 antivenom antivenom NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nmod 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pick up** | past | a boy in Texas | a dead snake | | a trail | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Topic | | 2 | **is** | past | snake | | | | | alive *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **bite** | past | a boy in Texas *not said here* | boy | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 4 | **rush** | past · passive | | boy | | hospital | | for antivenom | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to hospital=Trajectory | 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:everyday:238-bites-and-things-you-find.lesson:20`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×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: [Bites, stings and things you find on t…, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/238-bites-and-things-you-find/19/) - next →: [Bites, stings and things you find on t…, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/238-bites-and-things-you-find/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/238-bites-and-things-you-find/)