Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions and the platypus, sentence 18
In Britain the only venomous snake is the adder, and bites are rare.
Who acts: only venomous snake, bites · What happens: be · To what, where: adder, Britain
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 (only venomous snake, bites), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Britain | case |
| 2 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 adder | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 snake | det |
| 4 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 snake | amod |
| 5 | venomous | venomous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 snake | amod |
| 6 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 adder | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 adder | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 adder | det |
| 9 | adder | adder | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rare | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rare | cc |
| 12 | bites | bite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 rare | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 rare | cop |
| 14 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 adder | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 adder | 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 | is a | present | the only venomous snake | the adder | Britain | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | bites | rare 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:18.
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): no change. 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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