Australia's venomous animals and why few people die, sentence 8
The Sydney funnel-web spider is one of the most dangerous spiders, and males wander in summer looking for mates; since an antivenom was made in 1981 no one is known to have died from a funnel-web bite.
Who acts: Sydney web spider, males · What happens: be, wander, look, make, know, die · To what, where: one, antivenom, 1981, web bite
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 (Sydney web spider, males), 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 | 6 spider | det |
| 2 | Sydney | Sydney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 spider | compound |
| 3 | funnel | funnel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 web | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 funnel | punct |
| 5 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spider | compound |
| 6 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 one | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 one | cop |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 known | parataxis |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 spiders | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 spiders | det |
| 11 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 12 dangerous | advmod |
| 12 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 spiders | amod |
| 13 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 one | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wander | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wander | cc |
| 16 | males | male | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 wander | nsubj |
| 17 | wander | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 one | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 summer | case |
| 19 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wander | obl |
| 20 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 wander | advcl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 mates | case |
| 22 | mates | mate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 looking | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 made | punct |
| 24 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 28 made | mark |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 antivenom | det |
| 26 | antivenom | antivenom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 made | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 made | aux:pass |
| 28 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 known | advcl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 1981 | case |
| 30 | 1981 | 1981 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 made | obl |
| 31 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 32 one | det |
| 32 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 known | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 known | aux:pass |
| 34 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 died | mark |
| 36 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 37 died | aux |
| 37 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 known | xcomp |
| 38 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 bite | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 bite | det |
| 40 | funnel | funnel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 web | compound |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 funnel | punct |
| 42 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 bite | compound |
| 43 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 died | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 one | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Sydney web spider | one | of the dangerous spiders | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wander | present | males | summer | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | males not said here | for mates | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for mate=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | past · passive | a antivenom | 1981 | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 5 | know | present · passive | no one | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | die | to-infinitive · perfect | a web bite | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from bite=Causer |
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:8.
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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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