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title: If a spider bites you in Australia, keep still and tell an adult, be… — Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma · tree and pragmatics
description: If a spider bites you in Australia, keep still and tell an adult, because some Australian spiders are dangerous and need first aid. Who acts: spider, you, Australian spiders. A sentence of the lesson «Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its d
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# Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma, sentence 6

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If a spider bites you in Australia, keep still and tell an adult, because some Australian spiders are dangerous and need first aid.

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**Who acts:** spider, you, Australian spiders · **What happens:** bite, keep, tell, be, need · **To what, where:** you, Australia, adult, first aid · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Splinters, stings, allergies and asthma» 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 (spider, you, Australian spiders), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:085-splinters-stings-and-allergies.lesson:6
# text = If a spider bites you in Australia, keep still and tell an adult, because some Australian spiders are dangerous and need first aid.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 085-splinters-stings-and-allergies.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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bites	bite	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
18	Australian	Australian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
24	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	25	amod	_	_
25	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4: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 | **bite** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a spider | you |  | Australia |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Patient in australia=Location |
| 2 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | a adult |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | present | some Australian spiders |  |  |  |  | dangerous *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **need** | present | some Australian spiders *not said here* | first aid |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot aid=Theme |

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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:085-splinters-stings-and-allergies.lesson:6`.

**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 ×2, 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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