The reptile house: snakes, sentence 14
Antivenom is made by giving horses tiny safe doses of venom and collecting the antibodies their blood makes; some blood pressure medicines were first found by studying venom.
Who acts: blood · What happens: make, give, collect, find, study · To what, where: Antivenom, tiny safe doses, horses, antibodies, pressure medicines, venom
This is a sentence of the lesson «The reptile house: snakes» 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 (blood), 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 | Antivenom | antivenom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | aux:pass |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 5 giving | mark |
| 5 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 made | advcl |
| 6 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 giving | iobj |
| 7 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 doses | amod |
| 8 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 doses | amod |
| 9 | doses | dose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 giving | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 venom | case |
| 11 | venom | venom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 doses | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 collecting | cc |
| 13 | collecting | collect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 giving | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 antibodies | det |
| 15 | antibodies | antibody | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 collecting | obj |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 blood | nmod:poss |
| 17 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 makes | nsubj |
| 18 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 antibodies | acl:relcl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 found | punct |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 medicines | det |
| 21 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pressure | compound |
| 22 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 medicines | compound |
| 23 | medicines | medicine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 found | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 found | aux:pass |
| 25 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 26 found | advmod |
| 26 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 made | parataxis |
| 27 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 28 studying | mark |
| 28 | studying | study | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 found | advcl |
| 29 | venom | venom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 studying | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | 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 | make | present · passive | Antivenom | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | give | gerund | tiny safe doses of venom | horses | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent horse=Recipient dose=Theme | ||||
| 3 | collect | gerund | the antibodies | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antibody=Theme | |||||
| 4 | make | present | antibodies's blood | the antibodies not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material antibody=Product | ||||
| 5 | find | past · passive | some pressure medicines | first property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 6 | study | gerund | venom | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venom=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:087-reptile-house-snakes.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 ×2. 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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