Australia's venomous animals and why few people die, sentence 10

The stonefish looks exactly like a lumpy stone and has venomous spines along its back, so reef shoes in shallow water protect your feet.

Who acts: stonefish, reef shoes · What happens: look, have, protect · To what, where: venomous spines, feet

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 (stonefish, reef shoes), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stonefish	det
2	stonefish	stonefish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looks	nsubj
3	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	3 looks	advmod
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 stone	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 stone	det
7	lumpy	lumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stone	amod
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looks	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 has	cc
10	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 looks	conj
11	venomous	venomous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 spines	amod
12	spines	spine	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 has	obj
13	along	along	ADP	_	15 back	case
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 back	nmod:poss
15	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spines	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 shoes	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	23 protect	advmod
18	reef	reef	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shoes	compound
19	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 protect	nsubj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 water	case
21	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 water	amod
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 shoes	nmod
23	protect	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 looks	parataxis
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 feet	nmod:poss
25	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 protect	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looks	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	present	the stonefish		like a lumpy stone; exactly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	have	present	the stonefish not said here	venomous spines	along stonefish's back	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spine=Patient
3	protect	present	reef shoes in shallow water	your feet		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Beneficiary

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:10.

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. 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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