Australia's venomous animals and why few people die, sentence 0

Australia has some of the most venomous snakes, spiders, jellyfish and sea creatures in the world, yet only a handful of people die from them in a normal year.

Who acts: Australia, handful · What happens: have, die · To what, where: some

This is a sentence of the lesson «Australia's venomous animals and why few people die» of the biology 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 (Australia, handful), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 has	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 snakes	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 snakes	det
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 venomous	advmod
7	venomous	venomous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 snakes	amod
8	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 some	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 spiders	punct
10	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 snakes	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 jellyfish	punct
12	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 snakes	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 creatures	cc
14	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 creatures	compound
15	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 snakes	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 world	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 world	det
18	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 creatures	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 die	punct
20	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	26 die	cc
21	only	only	ADV	_	23 handful	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 handful	det
23	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 die	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 people	case
25	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 handful	nmod
26	die	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 has	conj
27	from	from	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 die	obl
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 year	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 year	det
31	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 year	amod
32	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 die	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Australia	some					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient
2	die	present	a handful of people				year	from people	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from they=Causer

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, 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:biology:166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die.lesson:0.

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. 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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