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title: Rattlesnakes live in Arizona, Texas and many other parts of the USA,… — Snakes, spiders and scorpions · tree and pragmatics
description: Rattlesnakes live in Arizona, Texas and many other parts of the USA, and they do not always rattle before they strike. Who acts: Rattlesnakes. 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
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# Snakes, spiders and scorpions, sentence 9

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Rattlesnakes live in Arizona, Texas and many other parts of the USA, and they do not always rattle before they strike.

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**Who acts:** Rattlesnakes · **What happens:** live, not rattle, strike · **To what, where:** Arizona

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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 (Rattlesnakes), 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:9
# text = Rattlesnakes live in Arizona, Texas and many other parts of the USA, and they do not always rattle before they strike.
# 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): no change
1	Rattlesnakes	rattlesnake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Arizona	Arizona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Texas	Texas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	20	advmod	_	_
20	rattle	rattle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
21	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	strike	strike	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **live** | present | Rattlesnakes |  |  | Arizona and Texas and many other parts of the USA |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in arizona=Location |
| 2 | **not** **rattle** | present · do-support | rattlesnakes *= rattlesnake* |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **strike** | present | rattlesnakes *= rattlesnake* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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**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:9`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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