--- title: Venom is something an animal injects with a bite, sting or spine; so… — Australia's venomous animals and why few people… · tree and pragmatics description: Venom is something an animal injects with a bite, sting or spine; some animals only have irritating hairs, and a horse or a cow hurts more Australians every year than all the snakes and spiders together. Who acts: Venom, animal, animals, horse. 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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 (Venom, animal, animals, horse), 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:3 # text = Venom is something an animal injects with a bite, sting or spine; some animals only have irritating hairs, and a horse or a cow hurts more Australians every year than all the snakes and spiders together. # 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, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Venom venom NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 0 root _ _ 4 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 injects inject VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 bite bite NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 sting sting NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 12 or or CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 spine spine NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 15 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 16 det _ _ 16 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 17 only only ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 19 irritating irritate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ _ 28 hurts hurt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 29 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 30 amod _ _ 30 Australians australian PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 32 det _ _ 32 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl:unmarked _ _ 33 than than ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 36 det:predet _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 conj _ _ 39 together together ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:advmod 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 a** | present | Venom | something | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **inject** | present | a animal | | | | | with a bite and sting or spine | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **have** | present | some animals | irritating hairs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | | 4 | **hurt** | present | a horse or a cow | more Australians | | | year | than all snakes and spiders | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer australian=Patient | 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:3`. **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, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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