Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions and the platypus, sentence 1
There is an easy rule: if it bites you and you get hurt, it is venomous; if you bite it and you get hurt, it is poisonous.
Who acts: easy rule, rule, you · What happens: be, bite, hurt · To what, where: you, rule
This is a sentence of the lesson «Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions and the platypus» 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 (easy rule, rule, you), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 rule | det |
| 4 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rule | amod |
| 5 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 venomous | punct |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 bites | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bites | nsubj |
| 9 | bites | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 venomous | advcl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 bites | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hurt | cc |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 hurt | nsubj |
| 13 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 hurt | aux:pass |
| 14 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 bites | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bites | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 venomous | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 venomous | cop |
| 18 | venomous | venomous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 is | parataxis |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 poisonous | punct |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 bite | mark |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 bite | nsubj |
| 22 | bite | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 poisonous | advcl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 bite | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 hurt | cc |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 hurt | nsubj |
| 26 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 hurt | aux:pass |
| 27 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 bite | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bite | punct |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 poisonous | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 poisonous | cop |
| 31 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 venomous | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | 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 | be | present | a easy rule | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bite a condition, not said to happen | present | rule | you | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hurt | present · passive | you | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is | present | rule | venomous property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | bite a condition, not said to happen | present | you | rule | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 6 | hurt | present · passive | you | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 7 | is | present | rule | poisonous property | tree rules |
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:246-defences-venom-in-snakes-jellyfish-scorpions-and-the-platypus.lesson:1.
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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