--- title: The box jellyfish has stinging cells on long tentacles whose venom c… — Australia's venomous animals and why few people… · tree and pragmatics description: The box jellyfish has stinging cells on long tentacles whose venom can stop a person's heart, so tropical beaches put up stinger nets in summer. Who acts: box jellyfish, venom, tropical beaches. 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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 (box jellyfish, venom, tropical beaches), 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:6 # text = The box jellyfish has stinging cells on long tentacles whose venom can stop a person's heart, so tropical beaches put up stinger nets in summer. # 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 3 det _ _ 2 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 jellyfish jellyfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 stinging sting VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 amod _ _ 6 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 tentacles tentacle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ _ 10 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 venom venom NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 acl:relcl _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 's 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 20 tropical tropical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 beaches beach NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 put put VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 23 up up ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 stinger stinger NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 nets net NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | the box jellyfish | stinging cells | | long tentacles | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Patient | | 2 | **sting** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **stop** | can | venom | a person's heart | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality heart=Eventuality | | 4 | **put up** | present | tropical beaches | stinger nets | | | summer | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent net=Goal | 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:6`. **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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