Australia's venomous animals and why few people die, sentence 9

The blue-ringed octopus is small enough to sit on a hand but carries venom that can stop breathing, and its blue rings flash only when it is alarmed, as a warning.

Who acts: blue ringed octopus, venom, blue rings · What happens: ring, be, sit, carry, stop, breathe · To what, where: hand, venom, octopus

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 (blue ringed octopus, venom, blue rings), 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	5 octopus	det
2	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 octopus	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 blue	punct
4	ringed	ring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 octopus	amod
5	octopus	octopus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 small	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 small	cop
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	enough	enough	ADV	_	7 small	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 sit	mark
10	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 small	advcl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 hand	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hand	det
13	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sit	obl
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 carries	cc
15	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sit	conj
16	venom	venom	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 carries	obj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 stop	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 stop	aux
19	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 venom	acl:relcl
20	breathing	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 stop	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 flash	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 flash	cc
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 rings	nmod:poss
24	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 rings	amod
25	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 flash	nsubj
26	flash	flash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 carries	conj
27	only	only	ADV	_	31 alarmed	advmod
28	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 alarmed	advmod
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 alarmed	nsubj:pass
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 alarmed	aux:pass
31	alarmed	alarm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 flash	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 warning	punct
33	as	as	ADP	_	35 warning	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 warning	det
35	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 flash	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 small	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ring	participle					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	the blue ringed octopus			enough, small property	tree rules
3	sit	to-infinitive	the blue ringed octopus not said here		a hand		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hand=Location
4	carry	present	the blue ringed octopus not said here	venom			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venom=Theme
5	stop	can	venom				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
6	breathe	gerund	venom not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	flash	present	venom's blue rings			as a warning	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	alarm	present · passive		octopus			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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:9.

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, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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