Australia's venomous animals and why few people die, sentence 15
Sea snakes are very venomous but usually gentle and rarely bite people, and their tails are flat like oars for swimming.
Who acts: Sea snakes, tails, oars · What happens: be, bite, swim · To what, where: people
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 (Sea snakes, tails, oars), 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 | Sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 snakes | compound |
| 2 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 venomous | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 venomous | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 venomous | advmod |
| 5 | venomous | venomous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 gentle | cc |
| 7 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 8 gentle | advmod |
| 8 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 venomous | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bite | cc |
| 10 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 11 bite | advmod |
| 11 | bite | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 venomous | conj |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 bite | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 flat | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 flat | cc |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 tails | nmod:poss |
| 16 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 flat | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 flat | cop |
| 18 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 venomous | conj |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 oars | case |
| 20 | oars | oar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 flat | obl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 swimming | case |
| 22 | swimming | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 oars | acl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 venomous | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Sea snakes | venomous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Sea snakes not said here | usually property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bite | present | Sea snakes not said here | people | rarely property | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | |||
| 4 | is | present | snakes's tails | like oars; flat property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | swim | gerund | oars not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: 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:15.
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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