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title: In Australia, a firm pressure bandage and keeping the limb still is… — Snakes, spiders and scorpions · tree and pragmatics
description: In Australia, a firm pressure bandage and keeping the limb still is the first aid for snake and funnel-web spider bites. Who acts: firm pressure bandage. A sentence of the lesson «Snakes, spiders and scorpions» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Snakes, spiders and scorpions, sentence 17

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In Australia, a firm pressure bandage and keeping the limb still is the first aid for snake and funnel-web spider bites.

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**Who acts:** firm pressure bandage · **What happens:** keep, be · **To what, where:** limb, first aid

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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 (firm pressure bandage), 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:17
# text = In Australia, a firm pressure bandage and keeping the limb still is the first aid for snake and funnel-web spider bites.
# 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): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	firm	firm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	pressure	pressure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	bandage	bandage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	limb	limb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	amod	_	_
16	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
18	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
20	funnel	funnel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	_
22	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
24	bites	bite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	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 | **keep** | gerund | a firm pressure bandage *not said here* | the limb |  |  | still |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limb=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | a firm pressure bandage | the first aid |  |  |  | for snake bites | tree rules |

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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:17`.

**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): no change. **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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