The desert: living with little water, sentence 14

Scorpions glow blue-green under ultraviolet light, and scientists are still not sure why; of more than 2,000 kinds, only a few dozen have venom dangerous to people, but none should be picked up.

Who acts: Scorpions, scientists, few dozen · What happens: glow, not be, have, pick up · To what, where: blue green, ultraviolet light, venom, none

This is a sentence of the lesson «The desert: living with little water» 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, scientists, few dozen), 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	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 glow	obj
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	_	15 sure	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sure	cc
11	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 sure	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 sure	cop
13	still	still	ADV	_	15 sure	advmod
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 sure	advmod
15	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 glow	conj
16	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	28 have	advmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 glow	punct
18	of	of	ADP	_	22 kinds	case
19	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	21 2,000	advmod
20	than	than	ADP	_	19 more	fixed
21	2,000	2000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	22 kinds	nummod
22	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 dozen	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dozen	punct
24	only	only	ADV	_	27 dozen	advmod
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 dozen	det
26	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 dozen	amod
27	dozen	dozen	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	nsubj
28	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 sure	ccomp
29	venom	venom	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	obj
30	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 venom	amod
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 people	case
32	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 dangerous	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 picked	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 picked	cc
35	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	38 picked	nsubj:pass
36	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 picked	aux
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 picked	aux:pass
38	picked	pick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 have	conj
39	up	up	ADP	_	38 picked	compound:prt
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 glow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glow	present	Scorpions	blue green	ultraviolet light			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent green=Theme
2	not is	present	scientists			still	sure property	tree rules
3	have	present	a few dozen of 2,000 kinds	venom				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venom=Patient
4	pick up	should · passive		none				vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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:005-the-desert.lesson:14.

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): 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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