--- title: Some of the most dangerous are small and pretty: a tiny golden frog,… — Record-breakers: the most venomous and poisonous · tree and pragmatics description: Some of the most dangerous are small and pretty: a tiny golden frog, a cone shell lying on the sand, a bird with poison in its feathers, so the safest rule is to look but never pick up a wild animal. Who acts: Some, cone shell, safest rule. 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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 (Some, cone shell, safest rule), 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:2 # text = Some of the most dangerous are small and pretty: a tiny golden frog, a cone shell lying on the sand, a bird with poison in its feathers, so the safest rule is to look but never pick up a wild animal. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 7 nsubj _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 5 advmod _ _ 5 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 nmod _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 frog frog NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 cone cone NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 19 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 acl _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 poison poison NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 safest safe ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 35 amod _ _ 35 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 39 but but CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 41 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 conj _ _ 42 up up ADP RP _ 41 compound:prt _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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** | present | Some | | | | | small *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | Some *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **lie** | gerund | a cone shell *not said here* | | | the sand | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on sand=Location | | 4 | **is** | present | the safest rule | | | | | look *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **pick up** | infinitive | the safest rule *not said here* | a wild animal | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Topic | 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:188-record-breakers-the-most-venomous-and-poisonous.lesson:2`. **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): R8-pos-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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