Australia's venomous animals and why few people die, sentence 3

Venom is something an animal injects with a bite, sting or spine; some animals only have irritating hairs, and a horse or a cow hurts more Australians every year than all the snakes and spiders together.

Who acts: Venom, animal, animals, horse · What happens: be, inject, have, hurt · To what, where: something, irritating hairs, more Australians

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 (Venom, animal, animals, horse), 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	Venom	venom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 something	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 something	cop
3	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 animal	det
5	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 injects	nsubj
6	injects	inject	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 something	acl:relcl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 bite	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bite	det
9	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 injects	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sting	punct
11	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bite	conj
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 spine	cc
13	spine	spine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bite	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 animals	det
16	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 have	nsubj
17	only	only	ADV	_	18 have	advmod
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 injects	conj
19	irritating	irritate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hairs	amod
20	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 have	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 hurts	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 hurts	cc
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 horse	det
24	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hurts	nsubj
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 cow	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 cow	det
27	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 horse	conj
28	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 have	conj
29	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 Australians	amod
30	Australians	australian	PROPN	Number=Plur	28 hurts	obj
31	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	32 year	det
32	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hurts	obl:unmarked
33	than	than	ADP	_	36 snakes	case
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	36 snakes	det:predet
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 snakes	det
36	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 Australians	nmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 spiders	cc
38	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 snakes	conj
39	together	together	ADV	_	36 snakes	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 something	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Venom	something			tree rules
2	inject	present	a animal			with a bite and sting or spine	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	present	some animals	irritating hairs			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
4	hurt	present	a horse or a cow	more Australians	year	than all snakes and spiders	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer australian=Patient

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:3.

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, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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.

See the release 0.4.

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