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title: Cone snails fire a harpoon-like tooth full of venom into fish, and s… — Australia's venomous animals and why few people… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cone snails fire a harpoon-like tooth full of venom into fish, and scientists have made a strong painkiller from one cone snail venom. Who acts: Cone snails, scientists. A sentence of the lesson «Australia's venomous animals and why few people die» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with
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# Australia's venomous animals and why few people die, sentence 11

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Cone snails fire a harpoon-like tooth full of venom into fish, and scientists have made a strong painkiller from one cone snail venom.

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**Who acts:** Cone snails, scientists · **What happens:** fire, make · **To what, where:** like tooth, strong painkiller, one snail venom

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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 (Cone snails, scientists), 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:11
# text = Cone snails fire a harpoon-like tooth full of venom into fish, and scientists have made a strong painkiller from one cone snail venom.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Cone	Cone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	snails	snail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fire	fire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	harpoon	harpoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	venom	venom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	scientists	scientist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	painkiller	painkiller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
24	cone	cone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	snail	snail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	venom	venom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fire** | present | Cone snails | a like tooth |  |  |  | into fish | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme into fish=Destination |
| 2 | **make** | present · perfect | scientists | a strong painkiller |  | one snail venom |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset painkiller=Product from venom=Material |

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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): R5-strong ×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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