--- title: The Sydney funnel-web spider is one of the most dangerous spiders, a… — Australia's venomous animals and why few people… · tree and pragmatics description: The Sydney funnel-web spider is one of the most dangerous spiders, and males wander in summer looking for mates; since an antivenom was made in 1981 no one is known to have died from a funnel-web bite. Who acts: Sydney web spider, males. 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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 (Sydney web spider, males), 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:8 # text = The Sydney funnel-web spider is one of the most dangerous spiders, and males wander in summer looking for mates; since an antivenom was made in 1981 no one is known to have died from a funnel-web bite. # 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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 2 Sydney Sydney PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj 3 funnel funnel NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:compound 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ _ 5 web web NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 spider spider NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 parataxis _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 12 advmod _ _ 12 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 spiders spider NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 males male NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 wander wander VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 20 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:acl 21 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 mates mate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 24 since since SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 25 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 antivenom antivenom NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advcl 29 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 1981 1981 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 28 obl _ _ 31 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 32 det _ _ 32 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 34 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 36 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 37 aux _ _ 37 died die VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 34 xcomp _ _ 38 from from ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 40 funnel funnel NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ _ 42 web web NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 bite bite NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34: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 | the Sydney web spider | one | | | | of the dangerous spiders | tree rules | | 2 | **wander** | present | males | | | | summer | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **look** | gerund | males *not said here* | | | | | for mates | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for mate=Theme | | 4 | **make** | past · passive | | a antivenom | | 1981 | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 5 | **know** | present · passive | | no one | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **die** | to-infinitive · perfect | | | | a web bite | | | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from bite=Causer | 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:8`. **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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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