--- title: A teenager in Arizona picked up a rattlesnake to show his friends; i… — Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours · tree and pragmatics description: A teenager in Arizona picked up a rattlesnake to show his friends; it bit his hand, and he spent days in hospital while doctors treated the swelling. Who acts: teenager, rattlesnake, doctors. 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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 (teenager, rattlesnake, doctors), 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:25 # text = A teenager in Arizona picked up a rattlesnake to show his friends; it bit his hand, and he spent days in hospital while doctors treated the swelling. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 teenager teenager NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Arizona Arizona PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 picked pick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 rattlesnake rattlesnake NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl 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 10 obj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 bit bite VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 spent spend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 22 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 hospital hospital NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 while while SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 doctors doctor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 treated treat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 swelling swelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pick up** | past | a teenager in Arizona | a rattlesnake | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rattlesnake=Topic | | 2 | **show** | to-infinitive | a teenager in Arizona *not said here* | | teenager's friends | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient | | 3 | **bite** | past | rattlesnake | teenager's hand | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | | 4 | **spend** | past | teenager | | | hospital | day | | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **treat** | past | doctors | the swelling | | | | | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent swelling=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:25`. **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, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours, 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours/23/) - next →: [Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours, 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours/26/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours/)