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title: The geography cone snail stings fish with a harpoon-like tooth and h… — Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous · tree and pragmatics
description: The geography cone snail stings fish with a harpoon-like tooth and has one of the deadliest venoms, so people should never pick up cone shells. Who acts: geography cone snail, people. A sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous» of the biology course of Mova's primary 
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# Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous, sentence 10

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The geography cone snail stings fish with a harpoon-like tooth and has one of the deadliest venoms, so people should never pick up cone shells.

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**Who acts:** geography cone snail, people · **What happens:** sting, have, not pick up · **To what, where:** fish, one, cone shells

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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 (geography cone snail, people), 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:10
# text = The geography cone snail stings fish with a harpoon-like tooth and has one of the deadliest venoms, so people should never pick up cone shells.
# 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): R3-conj-first ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	geography	geography	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	cone	cone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	snail	snail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stings	sting	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	harpoon	harpoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	tooth	tooth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	deadliest	deadly	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	venoms	venom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
22	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
23	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	cone	cone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sting** | present | the geography cone snail | fish |  |  |  | with a like tooth | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent fish=Experiencer with tooth=Instrument |
| 2 | **have** | present | the geography cone snail *not said here* | one of the deadliest venoms |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **pick up** | should | people | cone shells |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Topic |

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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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**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:188-record-breakers-the-most-venomous-and-poisonous.lesson:10`.

**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): R3-conj-first ×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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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