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title: Many Australian snakes are venomous, so if one is in the garden you… — Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours · tree and pragmatics
description: Many Australian snakes are venomous, so if one is in the garden you keep away, keep pets inside and call an adult or a snake catcher. Who acts: Many Australian snakes, one, you. A sentence of the lesson «Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours, sentence 12

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Many Australian snakes are venomous, so if one is in the garden you keep away, keep pets inside and call an adult or a snake catcher.

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**Who acts:** Many Australian snakes, one, you · **What happens:** be, keep away, keep, call · **To what, where:** garden, pets, adult · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours» 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 (Many Australian snakes, one, you), 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:12
# text = Many Australian snakes are venomous, so if one is in the garden you keep away, keep pets inside and call an adult or a snake catcher.
# 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	Australian	Australian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	venomous	venomous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:advmod
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	advcl	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=13:punct
18	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
19	pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
20	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	call	call	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	catcher	catcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Many Australian snakes |  |  |  |  | venomous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | one |  |  | the garden |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep away** | present | you |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **keep** | infinitive |  | pets |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pet=Theme |
| 5 | **call** | infinitive |  |  | a adult or a snake catcher |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |

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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:069-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours.lesson:12`.

**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, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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