Australia's venomous animals and why few people die, sentence 5
The eastern brown snake causes more serious bites because it lives near farms and towns where it meets people.
Who acts: eastern brown snake, venom · What happens: cause, live, meet · To what, where: serious bites, farms, 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 (eastern brown snake, 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 | 4 snake | det |
| 2 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 snake | amod |
| 3 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 snake | amod |
| 4 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 causes | nsubj |
| 5 | causes | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 serious | advmod |
| 7 | serious | serious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bites | amod |
| 8 | bites | bite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 causes | obj |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 lives | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 lives | nsubj |
| 11 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 causes | advcl |
| 12 | near | near | ADP | _ | 13 farms | case |
| 13 | farms | farm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lives | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 towns | cc |
| 15 | towns | town | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 farms | conj |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 meets | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 meets | nsubj |
| 18 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 farms | acl:relcl |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 meets | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 causes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
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- voice
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- polarity
- none
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- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | present | the eastern brown snake | serious bites | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition bite=Patient | ||||
| 2 | live | present | venom | farms and towns | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near farm=Location | ||||
| 3 | meet | present | venom | people | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Co-Agent |
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:5.
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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