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title: If someone is bitten, call the emergency number, keep them calm and… — Snakes, spiders and scorpions · tree and pragmatics
description: If someone is bitten, call the emergency number, keep them calm and still and keep the bitten arm or leg still; never cut the bite, suck it or tie it tight with a cord. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Snakes, spiders and scorpions» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Snakes, spiders and scorpions, sentence 4

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If someone is bitten, call the emergency number, keep them calm and still and keep the bitten arm or leg still; never cut the bite, suck it or tie it tight with a cord.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** bite, call, keep, not cut, suck, tie · **To what, where:** someone, emergency number, shoes, bitten arm, bite, number · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:4
# text = If someone is bitten, call the emergency number, keep them calm and still and keep the bitten arm or leg still; never cut the bite, suck it or tie it tight with a cord.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	bitten	bite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	still	still	ADV	RB	_	13	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	bitten	bite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	cut	cut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	suck	suck	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:parataxis
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	tie	tie	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	tight	tight	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **bite** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | someone |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **call** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | the emergency number |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent number=Recipient |
| 3 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* | shoes *= shoe* |  |  |  | calm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the bitten arm or leg |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
| 5 | **bite** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **not** **cut** | infinitive |  | the bite |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bite=Product |
| 7 | **suck** | infinitive |  | number |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 8 | **tie** | infinitive |  | number |  |  |  | with a cord; tight *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient with cord=Co-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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**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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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.

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