--- title: Sea snakes are very venomous but usually gentle and rarely bite peop… — Australia's venomous animals and why few people… · tree and pragmatics description: Sea snakes are very venomous but usually gentle and rarely bite people, and their tails are flat like oars for swimming. Who acts: Sea snakes, tails, oars. 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 dependenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Australia's venomous animals and why f…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/166-australias-venomous-animals-and-why-few-people-die/) / 15 # Australia's venomous animals and why few people die, sentence 15 Sea snakes are very venomous but usually gentle and rarely bite people, and their tails are flat like oars for swimming. **Who acts:** Sea snakes, tails, oars · **What happens:** be, bite, swim · **To what, where:** people 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 (Sea snakes, tails, oars), 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:15 # text = Sea snakes are very venomous but usually gentle and rarely bite people, and their tails are flat like oars for swimming. # 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 Sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 venomous venomous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 usually usually ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 gentle gentle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 rarely rarely ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 bite bite VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 tails tail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 19 like like ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 oars oar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 22 swimming swim VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 acl _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | Sea snakes | | | | | venomous *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Sea snakes *not said here* | | | | | usually *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **bite** | present | Sea snakes *not said here* | people | | | | rarely *property* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | snakes's tails | | | | | like oars; flat *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **swim** | gerund | oars *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: 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:15`. **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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