Australia's venomous animals and why few people die, sentence 13
Some caterpillars have hairs or spines that sting or cause rashes, so not every animal that hurts is venomous.
Who acts: caterpillars, hairs, animal · What happens: have, sting, cause, hurt, be · To what, where: hairs, rashes
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 (caterpillars, hairs, animal), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 caterpillars | det |
| 2 | caterpillars | caterpillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hairs | hair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 spines | cc |
| 6 | spines | spine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hairs | conj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 sting | nsubj |
| 8 | sting | sting | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hairs | acl:relcl |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 cause | cc |
| 10 | cause | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sting | conj |
| 11 | rashes | rash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cause | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 venomous | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 venomous | advmod |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 every | advmod |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 animal | det |
| 16 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 venomous | nsubj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 hurts | nsubj |
| 18 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 animal | acl:relcl |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 venomous | cop |
| 20 | venomous | venomous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 have | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | some caterpillars | hairs or spines | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sting | present | hairs or spines | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | cause | present | hairs or spines not said here | rashes | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition rash=Patient | ||||
| 4 | hurt | present | every animal | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | present | every animal | venomous property | tree rules |
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:13.
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, R6-punct-agree ×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.
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