Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions and the platypus, sentence 13

A tarantula bite is usually no worse than a bee sting to a person, and many American tarantulas defend themselves by flicking tiny itchy hairs from their bottoms.

Who acts: tarantula bite, many American tarantulas · What happens: not be, defend, flick · To what, where: tarantulas, tiny itchy hairs, bottoms

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 (tarantula bite, many American tarantulas), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bite	det
2	tarantula	tarantula	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bite	compound
3	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 worse	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 worse	cop
5	usually	usually	ADV	_	7 worse	advmod
6	no	no	ADV	_	7 worse	advmod
7	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
8	than	than	ADP	_	11 sting	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sting	det
10	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sting	compound
11	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 worse	obl
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 person	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 person	det
14	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sting	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 defend	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 defend	cc
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tarantulas	amod
18	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tarantulas	amod
19	tarantulas	tarantula	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 defend	nsubj
20	defend	defend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 worse	conj
21	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 defend	obj
22	by	by	SCONJ	_	23 flicking	mark
23	flicking	flick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 defend	advcl
24	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hairs	amod
25	itchy	itchy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hairs	amod
26	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 flicking	obj
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 bottoms	case
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 bottoms	nmod:poss
29	bottoms	bottom	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 flicking	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 worse	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	present	a tarantula bite			than a bee sting to a person; bad, usually property	tree rules
2	defend	present	many American tarantulas	tarantulas = tarantula			vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary
3	flick	gerund	many American tarantulas not said here	tiny itchy hairs	tarantulas's bottoms		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent hair=Theme from bottom=Initial_Location

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:13.

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 ×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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