Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures, sentence 13

Almost all spiders have venom for their prey, but only a few, like black widows and the Sydney funnel-web, are dangerous to people, and antivenoms exist; no British spider is deadly.

Who acts: spiders, few black widows, antivenoms, British spider · What happens: have, be, exist · To what, where: venom

This is a sentence of the lesson «Spiders, scorpions and other eight-legged creatures» 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 (spiders, few black widows, antivenoms, British spider), 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	Almost	almost	ADV	_	2 all	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 spiders	det
3	spiders	spider	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	venom	venom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 prey	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 prey	nmod:poss
8	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 venom	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 dangerous	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 dangerous	cc
11	only	only	ADV	_	13 few	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 few	det
13	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 widows	amod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 widows	punct
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 widows	case
16	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 widows	amod
17	widows	widow	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 dangerous	nsubj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 web	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 web	det
20	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 web	compound
21	funnel	funnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 web	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 funnel	punct
23	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 widows	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 widows	punct
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 dangerous	cop
26	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 have	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 people	case
28	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 dangerous	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 exist	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 exist	cc
31	antivenoms	antivenom	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 exist	nsubj
32	exist	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 dangerous	conj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 deadly	punct
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 spider	det
35	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 spider	amod
36	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 deadly	nsubj
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 deadly	cop
38	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 have	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	all spiders	venom	for Spiders's prey	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venom=Patient
2	is	present	few black widows and the Sydney funnel web		to people; dangerous property	tree rules
3	exist	present	antivenoms			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	no British spider		deadly 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:038-spiders-scorpions-and-eight-legged-creatures.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 ×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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