--- title: Most spiders and snakes are harmless and even helpful, but a few hav… — Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours · tree and pragmatics description: Most spiders and snakes are harmless and even helpful, but a few have strong venom, so the safe rule everywhere is: do not touch, give them space, and tell an adult. Who acts: Most spiders, few, safe rule. 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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 (Most spiders, few, safe rule), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:069-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours.lesson:0 # text = Most spiders and snakes are harmless and even helpful, but a few have strong venom, so the safe rule everywhere is: do not touch, give them space, and tell an adult. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 069-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 2 amod _ _ 2 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 4 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 harmless harmless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=6:cc 8 even even ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 helpful helpful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 nsubj _ _ 14 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 15 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 venom venom NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 everywhere everywhere ADV RB PronType=Tot 21 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:advmod 23 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 24 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct 25 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 touch touch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 give give VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 30 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 iobj _ _ 31 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 34 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 35 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 adult adult NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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** | present | Most spiders and snakes | | | | | harmless *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Most spiders and snakes *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | present | a few | strong venom | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venom=Patient | | 4 | **be** | present | the safe rule | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **not** **touch** | infinitive · do-support | | | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **give** | infinitive | | space | spiders *= spider* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient space=Theme | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | a adult | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient | 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:069-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours.lesson:0`. **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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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. 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