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title: Some caterpillars have hairs or spines that sting or cause rashes, s… — Australia's venomous animals and why few people… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some caterpillars have hairs or spines that sting or cause rashes, so not every animal that hurts is venomous. Who acts: caterpillars, hairs, animal. A sentence of the lesson «Australia's venomous animals and why few people die» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# Australia's venomous animals and why few people die, sentence 13

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Some caterpillars have hairs or spines that sting or cause rashes, so not every animal that hurts is venomous.

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**Who acts:** caterpillars, hairs, animal · **What happens:** have, sting, cause, hurt, be · **To what, where:** hairs, rashes

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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 (caterpillars, hairs, animal), 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:13
# text = Some caterpillars have hairs or spines that sting or cause rashes, so not every animal that hurts is venomous.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	caterpillars	caterpillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	hairs	hair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	spines	spine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sting	sting	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl:relcl
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	cause	cause	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
11	rashes	rash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	hurts	hurt	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	venomous	venomous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
21	.	.	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 | **have** | present | some caterpillars | hairs or spines |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient |
| 2 | **sting** | present | hairs or spines |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **cause** | present | hairs or spines *not said here* | rashes |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition rash=Patient |
| 4 | **hurt** | present | every animal |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | present | every animal |  |  |  |  | venomous *property* | tree rules |

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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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**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:13`.

**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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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