Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions and the platypus, sentence 12
Scorpions glow blue-green under ultraviolet light, nobody is quite sure why, and only a few of the many kinds are dangerous to people.
Who acts: Scorpions, nobody, few · What happens: glow, be · To what, where: ultraviolet light
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 (Scorpions, nobody, few), 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 | Scorpions | scorpion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 glow | nsubj |
| 2 | glow | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 green | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 blue | punct |
| 5 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 glow | xcomp |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 8 light | case |
| 7 | ultraviolet | ultraviolet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 light | amod |
| 8 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 glow | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sure | punct |
| 10 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 sure | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sure | cop |
| 12 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 13 sure | advmod |
| 13 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 glow | parataxis |
| 14 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 sure | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 dangerous | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 dangerous | cc |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 few | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 few | det |
| 19 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 dangerous | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 kinds | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 kinds | det |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 kinds | amod |
| 23 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 few | nmod |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 dangerous | cop |
| 25 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 glow | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 people | case |
| 27 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 dangerous | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 glow | 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 | glow | present | Scorpions | ultraviolet light | green property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under light=Location | |||
| 2 | is | present | nobody | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | a few of the many kinds | to people; dangerous 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:12.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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