--- title: A rattlesnake's rattle is a warning that helps it avoid being steppe… — Thinking like an animal · tree and pragmatics description: A rattlesnake's rattle is a warning that helps it avoid being stepped on and avoid a fight, so it does not waste its venom. Who acts: rattle, warning, rattlesnake. 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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 (rattle, warning, rattlesnake), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:030-thinking-like-an-animal.lesson:16 # text = A rattlesnake's rattle is a warning that helps it avoid being stepped on and avoid a fight, so it does not waste its venom. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 030-thinking-like-an-animal.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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 rattlesnake rattlesnake NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 rattle rattle NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 helps help VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 avoid avoid VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 stepped step VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 xcomp _ _ 14 on on ADP IN _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 avoid avoid VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 waste waste VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 parataxis _ _ 25 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 venom venom NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a rattlesnake's rattle | a warning | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **help** | present | a warning | | | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **avoid** | infinitive | rattle | | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **step on** | gerund · passive | rattle *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V» | | 5 | **avoid** | infinitive | rattle *not said here* | a fight | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent fight=Location | | 6 | **not** **waste** | present · do-support | rattle | rattle's venom | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument venom=Patient | | 7 | **rattle** | | a rattlesnake | | | | | | nom rattle «event intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:030-thinking-like-an-animal.lesson:16`. **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/). - ← previous: [Thinking like an animal, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/30-thinking-like-an-animal/15/) - next →: [Thinking like an animal, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/30-thinking-like-an-animal/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/30-thinking-like-an-animal/)