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title: Snakes can bite even when they look dead, so you leave every snake a… — Bites, stings and things you find on the ground · tree and pragmatics
description: Snakes can bite even when they look dead, so you leave every snake alone. Who acts: Snakes, Things, you. A sentence of the lesson «Bites, stings and things you find on the ground» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Bites, stings and things you find on the ground, sentence 22

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Snakes can bite even when they look dead, so you leave every snake alone.

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**Who acts:** Snakes, Things, you · **What happens:** bite, look, leave · **To what, where:** snake

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Bites, stings and things you find on the ground» of the everyday 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, Things, you), 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:22
# text = Snakes can bite even when they look dead, so you leave every snake alone.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	bite	bite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	leave	leave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bite** | can | Snakes |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **look** | present | Things *= thing* |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **leave** | present | you | every snake |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Theme |

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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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**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:22`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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