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title: Pufferfish, called fugu in Japan, have poison in the liver and other… — Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous · tree and pragmatics
description: Pufferfish, called fugu in Japan, have poison in the liver and other organs, so only trained chefs may prepare them, and one fish can hold enough to kill about thirty people. Who acts: Pufferfish, trained chefs, one fish. A sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous» of
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# Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous, sentence 12

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Pufferfish, called fugu in Japan, have poison in the liver and other organs, so only trained chefs may prepare them, and one fish can hold enough to kill about thirty people.

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**Who acts:** Pufferfish, trained chefs, one fish · **What happens:** call, have, train, prepare, hold, kill · **To what, where:** fugu, Japan, poison, liver, organs, thirty people · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Pufferfish, trained chefs, one fish), 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:12
# text = Pufferfish, called fugu in Japan, have poison in the liver and other organs, so only trained chefs may prepare them, and one fish can hold enough to kill about thirty people.
# 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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3
1	Pufferfish	Pufferfish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
4	fugu	fugu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	liver	liver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	organs	organ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:advmod
19	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	chefs	chef	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advcl
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
30	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:xcomp
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
33	about	about	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
34	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle | Pufferfish *not said here* | fugu |  | Japan |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | present | Pufferfish | poison |  | the liver and other organs |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poison=Patient |
| 3 | **train** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **prepare** | may | trained chefs | organs *= organ* |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 5 | **hold** | can | one fish |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **kill** | to-infinitive | one fish *not said here* | thirty people |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme |

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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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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