--- title: Male platypuses have a venomous spur on each back ankle; the venom d… — Australia's venomous animals and why few people… · tree and pragmatics description: Male platypuses have a venomous spur on each back ankle; the venom does not kill people but can cause pain that lasts for weeks. Who acts: Male platypuses, venom, pain. 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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 (Male platypuses, venom, pain), 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:12 # text = Male platypuses have a venomous spur on each back ankle; the venom does not kill people but can cause pain that lasts for weeks. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Male male ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 platypuses platypus NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 venomous venomous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 spur spur NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 9 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 10 ankle ankle NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 venom venom NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 14 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 17 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 cause cause VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 21 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 lasts last VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **have** | present | Male platypuses | a venomous spur | | each back ankle | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spur=Patient | | 2 | **not** **kill** | present · do-support | the venom | people | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | | 3 | **cause** | can | the venom *not said here* | pain | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition pain=Patient | | 4 | **last** | present | pain | | | | week | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | 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:12`. **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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