Australia's venomous animals and why few people die, sentence 6

The box jellyfish has stinging cells on long tentacles whose venom can stop a person's heart, so tropical beaches put up stinger nets in summer.

Who acts: box jellyfish, venom, tropical beaches · What happens: have, sting, stop, put up · To what, where: stinging cells, long tentacles, heart, stinger nets

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 (box jellyfish, venom, tropical beaches), 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 jellyfish	det
2	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jellyfish	compound
3	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	stinging	sting	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 cells	amod
6	cells	cell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 tentacles	case
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tentacles	amod
9	tentacles	tentacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cells	nmod
10	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	11 venom	nmod:poss
11	venom	venom	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stop	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 stop	aux
13	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tentacles	acl:relcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 person	det
15	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heart	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 person	case
17	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stop	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 put	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	22 put	advmod
20	tropical	tropical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 beaches	amod
21	beaches	beach	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 put	nsubj
22	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	parataxis
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 put	compound:prt
24	stinger	stinger	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 nets	compound
25	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 put	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 summer	case
27	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 put	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	present	the box jellyfish	stinging cells	long tentacles		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Patient
2	sting	gerund					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	stop	can	venom	a person's heart			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality heart=Eventuality
4	put up	present	tropical beaches	stinger nets		summer	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent net=Goal

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:6.

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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