--- title: Venom is a poison that an animal pushes into another animal with fan… — Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions… · tree and pragmatics description: Venom is a poison that an animal pushes into another animal with fangs, a sting or a spine, like a tiny syringe. Who acts: Venom, animal. A sentence of the lesson «Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions and the platypus» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/246-defences-venom-in-snakes-jellyfish-scorpions-and-the-platypus/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/246-defences-venom-in-snakes-jellyfish-scorpions-and-the-platypus/) / 0 # Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions and the platypus, sentence 0 Venom is a poison that an animal pushes into another animal with fangs, a sting or a spine, like a tiny syringe. **Who acts:** Venom, animal · **What happens:** be, push · **To what, where:** poison This is a sentence of the lesson «Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions and the platypus» 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 (Venom, animal), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:246-defences-venom-in-snakes-jellyfish-scorpions-and-the-platypus.lesson:0 # text = Venom is a poison that an animal pushes into another animal with fangs, a sting or a spine, like a tiny syringe. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 246-defences-venom-in-snakes-jellyfish-scorpions-and-the-platypus.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Venom venom NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 poison poison NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 obj _ _ 6 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ _ 9 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 11 det _ _ 11 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nmod 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 fangs fang NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 sting sting NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 spine spine NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 like like ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 syringe syringe NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Venom | a poison | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **push** | present | a animal | a poison | | | | into another animal; with fangs and a sting or a spine | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent that=Theme into animal=Destination | 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:246-defences-venom-in-snakes-jellyfish-scorpions-and-the-platypus.lesson:0`. **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 ×2, 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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