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title: More Australians are hurt by horses, cows and bees than by snakes or… — Australia's venomous animals and why few people… · tree and pragmatics
description: More Australians are hurt by horses, cows and bees than by snakes or spiders. Who acts: horses. 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 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Australia's venomous animals and why few people die, sentence 16

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More Australians are hurt by horses, cows and bees than by snakes or spiders.

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**Who acts:** horses · **What happens:** hurt · **To what, where:** More Australians

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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 (horses), 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:16
# text = More Australians are hurt by horses, cows and bees than by snakes or spiders.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	Australians	australian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	hurt	hurt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=8:conj
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **hurt** | present · passive | horses and cows and bees | More Australians |  |  |  | than snakes or spiders | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Patient |

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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:16`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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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