--- title: Think of a dog that growls behind a fence: it is dangerous only if y… — Australia's venomous animals and why few people… · tree and pragmatics description: Think of a dog that growls behind a fence: it is dangerous only if you climb in, and venomous animals are the same, so leaving them alone keeps you safe. Who acts: you, dog, most, venomous animals. A sentence of the lesson «Australia's venomous animals and why few people die» of the biology course o --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # Australia's venomous animals and why few people die, sentence 2 Think of a dog that growls behind a fence: it is dangerous only if you climb in, and venomous animals are the same, so leaving them alone keeps you safe. **Who acts:** you, dog, most, venomous animals, leaving · **What happens:** think, growl, be, climb, leave, keep · **To what, where:** fence, animals, you 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 (you, dog, most, venomous animals), 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:2 # text = Think of a dog that growls behind a fence: it is dangerous only if you climb in, and venomous animals are the same, so leaving them alone keeps you safe. # 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 ×2 1 Think think VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 6 growls growl VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 7 behind behind ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 fence fence NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:expl 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:ccomp 14 only only ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 if if SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 climb climb VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 18 in in ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 venomous venomous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 23 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 parataxis _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 28 leaving leave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 csubj _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 alone alone ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | of a dog | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **growl** | present | a dog | | | a fence | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind fence=Location | | 3 | **is** | present | most | | | | | dangerous *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **climb** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | venomous animals | | | | | same *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **leave** | gerund | | animals *= animal* | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 7 | **keep** | present | leaving | you | | | | alone, safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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:2`. **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 ×2. **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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