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title: For any snake bite you call the emergency number and keep the person… — Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours · tree and pragmatics
description: For any snake bite you call the emergency number and keep the person calm and still, because moving spreads the venom faster; sucking or cutting the bite does not work and causes harm. Who acts: you, sucking. A sentence of the lesson «Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours» of the everyday course of Mo
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# Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours, sentence 2

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For any snake bite you call the emergency number and keep the person calm and still, because moving spreads the venom faster; sucking or cutting the bite does not work and causes harm.

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**Who acts:** you, sucking · **What happens:** call, keep, move, spread, suck, cut · **To what, where:** emergency number, person, venom, bite, harm · **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 (you, 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:2
# text = For any snake bite you call the emergency number and keep the person calm and still, because moving spreads the venom faster; sucking or cutting the 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
3	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	emergency	emergency	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	still	still	ADV	RB	_	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	nsubj	_	_
20	spreads	spread	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	venom	venom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	sucking	suck	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:nsubj
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	causes	cause	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
35	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | present | you | the emergency number |  |  |  | for any snake bite | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent number=Theme for bite=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the person |  |  |  | calm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme |
| 3 | **move** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **spread** | present |  | the venom |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location venom=Theme |
| 5 | **suck** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **cut** | gerund |  | the bite |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bite=Product |
| 7 | **not** **work** | present · do-support | sucking |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **cause** | present | sucking *not said here* | harm |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition harm=Patient |

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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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**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): R7-rel-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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