Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous, sentence 11
The story that daddy-long-legs are the most venomous but cannot bite is a myth: two kinds of animal get that name, and harvestmen have no venom at all, while cellar spiders have only weak venom.
Who acts: story, two kinds, harvestmen, cellar spiders · What happens: be, not bite, get, have · To what, where: myth, name, venom, all, weak venom
This is a sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous» 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 (story, two kinds, harvestmen, cellar spiders), 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 | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 myth | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 venomous | nsubj |
| 4 | daddy | daddy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 legs | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 daddy | punct |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 legs | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 long | punct |
| 8 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 venomous | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 venomous | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 venomous | det |
| 11 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 12 venomous | advmod |
| 12 | venomous | venomous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 story | acl:relcl |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 bite | cc |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 bite | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 bite | advmod |
| 16 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 venomous | conj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 myth | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 myth | det |
| 19 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 kinds | punct |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 kinds | nummod |
| 22 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 get | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 animal | case |
| 24 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kinds | nmod |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 myth | parataxis |
| 26 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 name | det |
| 27 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 get | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 have | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 have | cc |
| 30 | harvestmen | harvestman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 have | nsubj |
| 31 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 get | conj |
| 32 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 33 venom | det |
| 33 | venom | venom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 have | obj |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 all | case |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 venom | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 have | punct |
| 37 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 40 have | mark |
| 38 | cellar | cellar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 spiders | compound |
| 39 | spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 have | nsubj |
| 40 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 have | advcl |
| 41 | only | only | ADV | _ | 42 weak | advmod |
| 42 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 venom | amod |
| 43 | venom | venom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 have | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 myth | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the story | venomous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not bite | can | the story not said here | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | the story | a myth | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get | present | two kinds of animal | that name | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | have | present | harvestmen | no venom | all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venom=Patient | |||
| 6 | have | present | cellar spiders | weak venom | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venom=Patient |
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:188-record-breakers-the-most-venomous-and-poisonous.lesson:11.
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, 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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