--- title: Most snake bites happen when people try to catch, kill or pick up a… — Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours · tree and pragmatics description: Most snake bites happen when people try to catch, kill or pick up a snake, not when they leave it alone. Who acts: Most snake bites, people. 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 e --- [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/26/) [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/) / 26 # Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours, sentence 26 Most snake bites happen when people try to catch, kill or pick up a snake, not when they leave it alone. **Who acts:** Most snake bites, people · **What happens:** happen, try, catch, kill, pick up, not leave · **To what, where:** snake, bite 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 (Most snake bites, people), 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:26 # text = Most snake bites happen when people try to catch, kill or pick up a snake, not when they leave it alone. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 amod _ _ 2 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 bites bite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 happen happen VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 try try VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 19 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 21 advmod _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 alone alone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | present | Most snake bites | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **try** | present | people | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **catch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **kill** | infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **pick up** | infinitive | people *not said here* | a snake | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Topic | | 6 | **not** **leave** | present | people | bite | | | | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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:26`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-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, 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours/25/) - next →: [Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours, 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours/27/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours/)