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title: Venomous and poisonous are not the same: a venomous animal pushes it… — Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous · tree and pragmatics
description: Venomous and poisonous are not the same: a venomous animal pushes its venom into you with a bite or sting, like a snake or a scorpion, while a poisonous one is harmful if you touch or eat it, like a poison frog or a pufferfish. Who acts: Venomous, venomous animal, poisonous one, you. A sentence of t
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# Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous, sentence 0

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Venomous and poisonous are not the same: a venomous animal pushes its venom into you with a bite or sting, like a snake or a scorpion, while a poisonous one is harmful if you touch or eat it, like a poison frog or a pufferfish.

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**Who acts:** Venomous, venomous animal, poisonous one, you · **What happens:** not be, push, be, touch, eat · **To what, where:** venom

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous» 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 (Venomous, venomous animal, poisonous one, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:188-record-breakers-the-most-venomous-and-poisonous.lesson:0
# text = Venomous and poisonous are not the same: a venomous animal pushes its venom into you with a bite or sting, like a snake or a scorpion, while a poisonous one is harmful if you touch or eat it, like a poison frog or a pufferfish.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 188-record-breakers-the-most-venomous-and-poisonous.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): no change
1	Venomous	venomous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	venomous	venomous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	venom	venom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	sting	sting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	scorpion	scorpion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	poisonous	poisonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	harmful	harmful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
36	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	touch	touch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
39	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	like	like	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	parataxis	_	_
47	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	pufferfish	pufferfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	_
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | Venomous |  |  |  |  | like a snake or a scorpion; same *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **push** | present | a venomous animal | animal's venom |  |  |  | into you; with a bite or sting | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent venom=Theme into you=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | present | a poisonous one |  |  |  |  | harmful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **touch** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **eat** | present | you *not said here* | venom |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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.

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**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): no change. **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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