--- title: Vinegar stops the unfired stinging cells of a box jellyfish from fir… — Australia's venomous animals and why few people… · tree and pragmatics description: Vinegar stops the unfired stinging cells of a box jellyfish from firing, so lifeguards carry it, and anyone stung needs urgent medical help. Who acts: Vinegar, lifeguards, anyone. A sentence of the lesson «Australia's venomous animals and why few people die» of the biology course of Mova's primary s --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # Australia's venomous animals and why few people die, sentence 7 Vinegar stops the unfired stinging cells of a box jellyfish from firing, so lifeguards carry it, and anyone stung needs urgent medical help. **Who acts:** Vinegar, lifeguards, anyone · **What happens:** stop, sting, carry, need · **To what, where:** unfired stinging cells, jellyfish, urgent medical help 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 (Vinegar, lifeguards, anyone), 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:7 # text = Vinegar stops the unfired stinging cells of a box jellyfish from firing, so lifeguards carry it, and anyone stung needs urgent medical help. # 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): R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Vinegar vinegar NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 stops stop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 unfired unfired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:amod|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 stinging sting VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 amod _ _ 6 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 jellyfish jellyfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 firing firing NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 15 lifeguards lifeguard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=16:punct 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 22 nsubj _ _ 21 stung sting VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl:relcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 23 urgent urgent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 medical medical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **stop** | present | Vinegar | the unfired stinging cells of a box jellyfish from firing | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality cell=Eventuality | | 2 | **sting** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **carry** | present | lifeguards | jellyfish | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **sting** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **need** | present | anyone | urgent medical help | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=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:7`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R8-pos-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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