--- title: In Australia, adults are taught to wrap a firm pressure bandage over… — Snakes, spiders and scorpions · tree and pragmatics description: In Australia, adults are taught to wrap a firm pressure bandage over a snake or funnel-web bite and the whole limb and keep it still, because this slows the venom moving through the body. Who acts: adults, this, venom. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (adults, this, venom), 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:5 # text = In Australia, adults are taught to wrap a firm pressure bandage over a snake or funnel-web bite and the whole limb and keep it still, because this slows the venom moving through the body. # 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 adults adult NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 taught teach VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 wrap wrap VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 firm firm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 pressure pressure NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 bandage bandage NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 13 over over ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 16 or or CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 funnel funnel NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:compound 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ _ 19 web web NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 bite bite NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=20:cc 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 limb limb NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 keep keep VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 still still ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 because because SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 32 nsubj _ _ 32 slows slow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 venom venom NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 moving move VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 acl _ _ 36 through through ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | present · passive | | adults | | Australia | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **wrap** | to-infinitive | adults *not said here* | a firm pressure bandage | | | | over a snake or web bite and the whole limb | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bandage=Theme over snake=Destination | | 3 | **keep** | infinitive | adults *not said here* | adult | | | still | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **slow** | present | this | the venom | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent venom=Patient | | 5 | **move** | gerund | the venom *not said here* | | | the body | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through body=Trajectory | 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. 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