--- title: The eastern brown snake causes more serious bites because it lives n… — Australia's venomous animals and why few people… · tree and pragmatics description: The eastern brown snake causes more serious bites because it lives near farms and towns where it meets people. Who acts: eastern brown snake, venom. 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 --- [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/5/) [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/) / 5 # Australia's venomous animals and why few people die, sentence 5 The eastern brown snake causes more serious bites because it lives near farms and towns where it meets people. **Who acts:** eastern brown snake, venom · **What happens:** cause, live, meet · **To what, where:** serious bites, farms, 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 (eastern brown snake, 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:5 # text = The eastern brown snake causes more serious bites because it lives near farms and towns where it meets people. # 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 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 eastern eastern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 4 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 causes cause VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 7 advmod _ _ 7 serious serious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 bites bite NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 9 because because SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 12 near near ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 farms farm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 towns town NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 18 advmod _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 meets meet VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 19 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 20 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cause** | present | the eastern brown snake | serious bites | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition bite=Patient | | 2 | **live** | present | venom | | | farms and towns | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near farm=Location | | 3 | **meet** | present | venom | people | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Co-Agent | 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:5`. **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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