--- title: The reasons are simple: most of these animals are shy and bite only… — Australia's venomous animals and why few people… · tree and pragmatics description: The reasons are simple: most of these animals are shy and bite only when grabbed or stepped on, antivenoms (medicines that undo venom) exist for the worst ones, and people learn rules like checking under the outdoor toilet seat and swimming inside stinger nets. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reasons, most, medicines, antivenoms), 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:1 # text = The reasons are simple: most of these animals are shy and bite only when grabbed or stepped on, antivenoms (medicines that undo venom) exist for the worst ones, and people learn rules like checking under the outdoor toilet seat and swimming inside stinger nets. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 reasons reason NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 6 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 nsubj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 9 det _ _ 9 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 shy shy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 bite bite VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 14 only only ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 16 grabbed grab VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 advcl _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 stepped step VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 antivenoms antivenom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 22 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 23 medicines medicine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 appos _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 undo undo VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 venom venom NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 27 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ _ 28 exist exist VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 29 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 worst bad ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 32 amod _ _ 32 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 36 learn learn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 37 rules rule NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 38 like like SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 39 checking check VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 advcl _ _ 40 under under ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 42 outdoor outdoor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 43 toilet toilet NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 swimming swim VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 conj _ _ 47 inside inside ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 stinger stinger NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 compound _ _ 49 nets net NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obl _ _ 50 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **is** | present | the reasons | | | | | simple *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | most of this animals | | | | | shy *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **bite** | present | most of this animals *not said here* | | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **grab** | participle | most of this animals *not said here* | | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **step** | participle | most of this animals *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **undo** | present | medicines | venom | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venom=Patient | | 7 | **exist** | present | antivenoms | | | | | for the worst ones | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **learn** | present | people | rules | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Topic | | 9 | **check** | gerund | people *not said here* | | | the outdoor toilet seat | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under seat=Location | | 10 | **swim** | gerund | people *not said here* | | | stinger nets | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside net=Trajectory | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die.lesson:1`. **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): R8-pos-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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