--- title: Many snake bites happen when people try to catch, move or kill the s… — Snakes, spiders and scorpions · tree and pragmatics description: Many snake bites happen when people try to catch, move or kill the snake. Who acts: Many snake bites, people. 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/20/) [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/) / 20 # Snakes, spiders and scorpions, sentence 20 Many snake bites happen when people try to catch, move or kill the snake. **Who acts:** Many snake bites, people · **What happens:** happen, try, catch, move, kill · **To what, where:** snake 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 (Many snake bites, people), 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:20 # text = Many snake bites happen when people try to catch, move or kill the snake. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 bites bite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 happen happen VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 when when SCONJ WRB _ 7 mark _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 try try VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:xcomp 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | present | Many snake bites | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **try** | present | people | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **catch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **move** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **kill** | infinitive | people *not said here* | the snake | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=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:20`. **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): 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, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/25-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions/19/) - next →: [Snakes, spiders and scorpions, 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/25-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions/21/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/25-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions/)