--- title: These animals do not want to fight a person; most bites happen when… — Snakes, spiders and scorpions · tree and pragmatics description: These animals do not want to fight a person; most bites happen when someone steps on one, puts a hand where they cannot see, or tries to catch, poke or kill it. Who acts: animals, most bites, someone, bites. 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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 (animals, most bites, someone, bites), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:025-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions.lesson:1 # text = These animals do not want to fight a person; most bites happen when someone steps on one, puts a hand where they cannot see, or tries to catch, poke or kill it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 025-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 These this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=5:punct 11 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 12 amod _ _ 12 bites bite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 happen happen VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 15 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 16 nsubj _ _ 16 steps step VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 puts put VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 27 advmod _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 acl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 tries try VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 poke poke VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ _ 35 or or CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **want** | present · do-support | this animals | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **fight** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | this animals *not said here* | a person | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Co-Agent | | 3 | **happen** | present | most bites | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **step** | present | someone | | | | | on one | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on one=Trajectory | | 5 | **put** | present | someone *not said here* | a hand | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal | | 6 | **not** **see** | can | bites *= bite* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **try** | present | bites *= bite* *not said here* | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 8 | **catch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | bites *= bite* *not said here* | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **poke** | infinitive | bites *= bite* *not said here* | | | | | | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **kill** | infinitive | bites *= bite* *not said here* | hand | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:everyday:025-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions.lesson:1`. **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): R2-punct-next ×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, spiders and scorpions, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/25-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions/0/) - next →: [Snakes, spiders and scorpions, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/25-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/25-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions/)