Australia's venomous animals and why few people die, sentence 12

Male platypuses have a venomous spur on each back ankle; the venom does not kill people but can cause pain that lasts for weeks.

Who acts: Male platypuses, venom, pain · What happens: have, not kill, cause, last · To what, where: venomous spur, back ankle, people, pain

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 (Male platypuses, venom, pain), 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	Male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 platypuses	amod
2	platypuses	platypus	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 spur	det
5	venomous	venomous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 spur	amod
6	spur	spur	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 ankle	case
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 ankle	det
9	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ankle	compound
10	ankle	ankle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spur	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 kill	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 venom	det
13	venom	venom	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 kill	nsubj
14	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 kill	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 kill	advmod
16	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	parataxis
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 kill	obj
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 cause	cc
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 cause	aux
20	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 kill	conj
21	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cause	obj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 lasts	nsubj
23	lasts	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 pain	acl:relcl
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 weeks	case
25	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 lasts	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	present	Male platypuses	a venomous spur	each back ankle		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spur=Patient
2	not kill	present · do-support	the venom	people			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
3	cause	can	the venom not said here	pain			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition pain=Patient
4	last	present	pain			week	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=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, 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:12.

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): 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.

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