Australia's venomous animals and why few people die, sentence 4
The inland taipan has the most toxic venom of any land snake when tested on mice in the laboratory, but it lives in remote desert, is shy and has almost never bitten anyone.
Who acts: inland taipan, venom · What happens: have, test, live, be, not bite · To what, where: toxic venom, remote desert, anyone
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 (inland taipan, venom), 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 | 3 taipan | det |
| 2 | inland | inland | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 taipan | amod |
| 3 | taipan | taipan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 venom | det |
| 6 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 toxic | advmod |
| 7 | toxic | toxic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 venom | amod |
| 8 | venom | venom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 snake | case |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 snake | det |
| 11 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 snake | compound |
| 12 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 venom | nmod |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 tested | advmod |
| 14 | tested | test | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 has | advcl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 mice | case |
| 16 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 tested | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 laboratory | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 laboratory | det |
| 19 | laboratory | laboratory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mice | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lives | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 lives | cc |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 lives | nsubj |
| 23 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 has | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 desert | case |
| 25 | remote | remote | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 desert | amod |
| 26 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lives | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 shy | punct |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 shy | cop |
| 29 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 has | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 bitten | cc |
| 31 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 bitten | aux |
| 32 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 34 bitten | advmod |
| 33 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 34 bitten | advmod |
| 34 | bitten | bite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 has | conj |
| 35 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 34 bitten | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the inland taipan | the toxic venom of any land snake | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venom=Patient | ||||
| 2 | test | participle | the inland taipan not said here | on mice in the laboratory | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | live | present | venom | remote desert | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in desert=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the inland taipan not said here | shy property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not bite | present · perfect | the inland taipan not said here | anyone | almost property | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=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:4.
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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