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title: The adder is the only venomous snake that lives wild in Britain, and… — Snakes, spiders and scorpions · tree and pragmatics
description: The adder is the only venomous snake that lives wild in Britain, and its bite needs a hospital visit. Who acts: adder, only venomous snake, bite. 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 ev
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# Snakes, spiders and scorpions, sentence 18

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The adder is the only venomous snake that lives wild in Britain, and its bite needs a hospital visit.

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**Who acts:** adder, only venomous snake, bite · **What happens:** be, live, need, bite · **To what, where:** only venomous snake, Britain, hospital visit

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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 (adder, only venomous snake, bite), 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:18
# text = The adder is the only venomous snake that lives wild in Britain, and its bite needs a hospital visit.
# 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	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	adder	adder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	venomous	venomous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | present | the adder | the only venomous snake |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | present | the only venomous snake |  |  | Britain |  | wild *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in britain=Location |
| 3 | **need** | present | adder's bite | a hospital visit |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot visit=Theme |
| 4 | **bite** |  | adder |  |  |  |  |  | nom bite «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:18`.

**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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