--- title: A man in Queensland tried to pick up a brown snake to move it; it bi… — Snakes, spiders and scorpions · tree and pragmatics description: A man in Queensland tried to pick up a brown snake to move it; it bit him, and he needed antivenom in hospital. Who acts: man, venom. 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/6/) [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/) / 6 # Snakes, spiders and scorpions, sentence 6 A man in Queensland tried to pick up a brown snake to move it; it bit him, and he needed antivenom in hospital. **Who acts:** man, venom · **What happens:** try, pick up, move, bite, need · **To what, where:** brown snake, venom, man, antivenom, hospital 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 (man, 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:6 # text = A man in Queensland tried to pick up a brown snake to move it; it bit him, and he needed antivenom in hospital. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Queensland Queensland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:compound:prt|HaikuPos=PART:RP:_ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 bit bite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 needed need VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:parataxis 23 antivenom antivenom NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | past | a man in Queensland | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **pick up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a man in Queensland *not said here* | a brown snake | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Topic | | 3 | **move** | to-infinitive | a man in Queensland *not said here* | venom | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **bite** | past | venom | man | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 5 | **need** | past | man | antivenom | | hospital | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot antivenom=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:6`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/25-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions/5/) - next →: [Snakes, spiders and scorpions, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/25-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/25-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions/)