Australia's venomous animals and why few people die, sentence 7
Vinegar stops the unfired stinging cells of a box jellyfish from firing, so lifeguards carry it, and anyone stung needs urgent medical help.
Who acts: Vinegar, lifeguards, anyone · What happens: stop, sting, carry, need · To what, where: unfired stinging cells, jellyfish, urgent medical help
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 (Vinegar, lifeguards, anyone), 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 | Vinegar | vinegar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stops | nsubj |
| 2 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cells | det |
| 4 | unfired | unfired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cells | amod |
| 5 | stinging | sting | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 cells | amod |
| 6 | cells | cell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stops | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 jellyfish | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 jellyfish | det |
| 9 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 jellyfish | compound |
| 10 | jellyfish | jellyfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cells | nmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 firing | case |
| 12 | firing | firing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 jellyfish | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 carry | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 carry | advmod |
| 15 | lifeguards | lifeguard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 carry | nsubj |
| 16 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 stops | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 carry | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 needs | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 needs | cc |
| 20 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 needs | nsubj |
| 21 | stung | sting | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 22 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 carry | conj |
| 23 | urgent | urgent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 help | amod |
| 24 | medical | medical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 help | amod |
| 25 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 needs | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stops | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | Vinegar | the unfired stinging cells of a box jellyfish from firing | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality cell=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | sting | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | carry | present | lifeguards | jellyfish | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sting | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | need | present | anyone | urgent medical help | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=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:7.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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