--- title: A boy in Arizona put on a boot left outside overnight without shakin… — Snakes, spiders and scorpions · tree and pragmatics description: A boy in Arizona put on a boot left outside overnight without shaking it; a scorpion inside stung his foot, and it hurt for hours. Who acts: boy, scorpion, 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 (boy, scorpion, 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:7 # text = A boy in Arizona put on a boot left outside overnight without shaking it; a scorpion inside stung his foot, and it hurt for hours. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Arizona Arizona PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 boot boot NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 outside outside ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 overnight overnight ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 12 without without SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 shaking shake VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 advcl _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 scorpion scorpion NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 inside inside ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod 19 stung sting VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 hurt hurt VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 28 . . 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 | **put** | past | a boy in Arizona | | | a boot | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on boot=Destination | | 2 | **leave** | participle | | a boot *not said here* | | | | outside, overnight *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **shake** | gerund | | venom | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **sting** | past | a scorpion | boy's foot | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus foot=Experiencer | | 5 | **hurt** | past | venom | | | | hour | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | 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:7`. **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, R7-rel-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, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/25-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions/6/) - next →: [Snakes, spiders and scorpions, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/25-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/25-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions/)