--- title: Keep a bitten person calm and still, because moving around helps the… — Snakes, spiders and scorpions · tree and pragmatics description: Keep a bitten person calm and still, because moving around helps the venom spread. Who acts: you, moving, venom. A sentence of the lesson «Snakes, spiders and scorpions» of the everyday 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/everyday/25-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions/15/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Snakes, spiders and scorpions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/25-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions/) / 15 # Snakes, spiders and scorpions, sentence 15 Keep a bitten person calm and still, because moving around helps the venom spread. **Who acts:** you, moving, venom · **What happens:** keep, bite, move around, help, spread · **To what, where:** bitten person This is a sentence of the lesson «Snakes, spiders and scorpions» 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 (you, moving, venom), 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:15 # text = Keep a bitten person calm and still, because moving around helps the venom spread. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 bitten bite VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 amod _ _ 4 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 5 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 xcomp _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 still still ADV RB _ 5 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:conj|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 because because SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 10 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 csubj _ _ 11 around around ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 advcl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 venom venom NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 spread spread VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 16 . . 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 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | a bitten person | | | | calm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme | | 2 | **bite** | participle | | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **move around** | gerund | | | | | | around *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **help** | present | moving | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **spread** | infinitive | the venom | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:everyday:025-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions.lesson:15`. **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): R8-pos-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, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/25-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions/14/) - next →: [Snakes, spiders and scorpions, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/25-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/25-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions/)