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title: Never cut a bite, suck out venom or tie a tight cord around the limb. — Snakes, spiders and scorpions · tree and pragmatics
description: Never cut a bite, suck out venom or tie a tight cord around the limb. Who acts: you. 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.
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# Snakes, spiders and scorpions, sentence 16

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Never cut a bite, suck out venom or tie a tight cord around the limb.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not cut, suck out, tie · **To what, where:** bite, venom, tight cord, limb

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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), 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:16
# text = Never cut a bite, suck out venom or tie a tight cord around the limb.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	cut	cut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	suck	suck	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	venom	venom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	tie	tie	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=6:conj
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	tight	tight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	around	around	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	limb	limb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **cut** | imperative | you *not said here* | a bite |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bite=Product |
| 2 | **suck out** | infinitive | you *not said here* | venom |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent venom=Source |
| 3 | **tie** | infinitive | you *not said here* | a tight cord |  | the limb |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Patient |

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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:025-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions.lesson:16`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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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