--- title: The inland taipan has the most toxic venom of any land snake when te… — Australia's venomous animals and why few people… · tree and pragmatics description: The inland taipan has the most toxic venom of any land snake when tested on mice in the laboratory, but it lives in remote desert, is shy and has almost never bitten anyone. Who acts: inland taipan, venom. 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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 (inland taipan, venom), 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:4 # text = The inland taipan has the most toxic venom of any land snake when tested on mice in the laboratory, but it lives in remote desert, is shy and has almost never bitten anyone. # 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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 inland inland ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 taipan taipan NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 7 advmod _ _ 7 toxic toxic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 venom venom NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 12 det _ _ 11 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 13 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 14 tested test VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:acl 15 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 laboratory laboratory NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 remote remote ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 shy shy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 32 almost almost ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 bitten bite VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 35 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 34 obj _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | the inland taipan | the toxic venom of any land snake | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venom=Patient | | 2 | **test** | participle | the inland taipan *not said here* | | | | | on mice in the laboratory | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **live** | present | venom | | | remote desert | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in desert=Location | | 4 | **is** | present | the inland taipan *not said here* | | | | | shy *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **bite** | present · perfect | the inland taipan *not said here* | anyone | | | | almost *property* | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=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. 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