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title: A hiker in Arizona was bitten by a rattlesnake; his friends kept him… — Caring for pets, snake bites, bears and the zoo · tree and pragmatics
description: A hiker in Arizona was bitten by a rattlesnake; his friends kept him still and called 911, and he recovered in hospital with antivenom. Who acts: rattlesnake, friends. A sentence of the lesson «Caring for pets, snake bites, bears and the zoo» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its 
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# Caring for pets, snake bites, bears and the zoo, sentence 20

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A hiker in Arizona was bitten by a rattlesnake; his friends kept him still and called 911, and he recovered in hospital with antivenom.

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**Who acts:** rattlesnake, friends · **What happens:** bite, keep, call, recover · **To what, where:** hiker, rattlesnake, 911, hospital · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Caring for pets, snake bites, bears and the zoo» 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 (rattlesnake, friends), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:316-new-pets-caring-snake-bites-bears-and-the-zoo.lesson:20
# text = A hiker in Arizona was bitten by a rattlesnake; his friends kept him still and called 911, and he recovered in hospital with antivenom.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 316-new-pets-caring-snake-bites-bears-and-the-zoo.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
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hiker	hiker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Arizona	Arizona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	bitten	bite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rattlesnake	rattlesnake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:agent	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	still	still	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
18	911	911	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	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	recovered	recover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	antivenom	antivenom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bite** | past · passive | a rattlesnake | a hiker in Arizona |  |  |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **keep** | past | rattlesnake's friends | rattlesnake |  |  | still |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | past | rattlesnake's friends *not said here* | 911 |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 911=Recipient |
| 4 | **recover** | past | rattlesnake |  |  | hospital |  | with antivenom | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:316-new-pets-caring-snake-bites-bears-and-the-zoo.lesson:20`.

**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. **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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