--- title: Sucking or cutting a snake bite does not work and causes harm. — Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours · tree and pragmatics description: Sucking or cutting a snake bite does not work and causes harm. Who acts: Sucking. A sentence of the lesson «Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / [Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours/) / 14 # Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours, sentence 14 Sucking or cutting a snake bite does not work and causes harm. **Who acts:** Sucking · **What happens:** suck, cut, not work, cause · **To what, where:** snake bite, harm 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 (Sucking), 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:14 # text = Sucking or cutting a snake bite does not work and causes harm. # 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): no change 1 Sucking suck VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 csubj _ _ 2 or or CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 cutting cut VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 1 conj _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 bite bite NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 causes cause VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 12 harm harm NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 13 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **suck** | gerund | | | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **cut** | gerund | | a snake bite | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bite=Product | | 3 | **not** **work** | present · do-support | Sucking | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **cause** | present | Sucking *not said here* | harm | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition harm=Patient | 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:14`. **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: [Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours/13/) - next →: [Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours/)