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title: Australia has some of the most venomous snakes, spiders, jellyfish a… — Australia's venomous animals and why few people… · tree and pragmatics
description: Australia has some of the most venomous snakes, spiders, jellyfish and sea creatures in the world, yet only a handful of people die from them in a normal year. Who acts: Australia, handful. A sentence of the lesson «Australia's venomous animals and why few people die» of the biology course of Mova's
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# Australia's venomous animals and why few people die, sentence 0

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Australia has some of the most venomous snakes, spiders, jellyfish and sea creatures in the world, yet only a handful of people die from them in a normal year.

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**Who acts:** Australia, handful · **What happens:** have, die · **To what, where:** some

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Australia's venomous animals and why few people die» 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 (Australia, handful), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die.lesson:0
# text = Australia has some of the most venomous snakes, spiders, jellyfish and sea creatures in the world, yet only a handful of people die from them in a normal year.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die.lesson
# annotation = 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
1	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	7	advmod	_	_
7	venomous	venomous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=12:conj
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	only	only	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	handful	handful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
26	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	normal	normal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Australia | some |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient |
| 2 | **die** | present | a handful of people |  |  |  | year | from people | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from they=Causer |

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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.

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**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. **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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