Defences: poison, warning colours and mimics, sentence 0
A poisonous animal does not bite you; it harms whoever eats it or touches it, so it is best for it if nobody tries in the first place.
Who acts: poisonous animal, animal, whoever, nobody · What happens: not bite, harm, eat, touch, be, try · To what, where: you, animal, first place
This is a sentence of the lesson «Defences: poison, warning colours and mimics» 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 (poisonous animal, animal, whoever, nobody), 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 animal | det |
| 2 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 animal | amod |
| 3 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bite | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bite | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 bite | advmod |
| 6 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 bite | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 harms | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 harms | nsubj |
| 10 | harms | harm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bite | parataxis |
| 11 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 eats | nsubj |
| 12 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 harms | ccomp |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 eats | obj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 touches | cc |
| 15 | touches | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 eats | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 touches | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 best | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 best | advmod |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 best | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 best | cop |
| 21 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 bite | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 best | obl |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 tries | mark |
| 25 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 26 tries | nsubj |
| 26 | tries | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 best | advcl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 place | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 place | det |
| 29 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 30 place | amod |
| 30 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tries | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bite | 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 | not bite | present · do-support | a poisonous animal | you | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 2 | harm | present | animal | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | eat | present | whoever | animal | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | touch | present | whoever not said here | animal | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | present | animal | for it; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | try a condition, not said to happen | present | nobody | the first place | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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:247-defences-poison-warning-colours-and-mimics.lesson:0.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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