--- title: There is an easy rule: if it bites you and you get hurt, it is venom… — Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions… · tree and pragmatics description: There is an easy rule: if it bites you and you get hurt, it is venomous; if you bite it and you get hurt, it is poisonous. Who acts: easy rule, rule, you. A sentence of the lesson «Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions and the platypus» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with i --- [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/1/) [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/) / 1 # Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions and the platypus, sentence 1 There is an easy rule: if it bites you and you get hurt, it is venomous; if you bite it and you get hurt, it is poisonous. **Who acts:** easy rule, rule, you · **What happens:** be, bite, hurt · **To what, where:** you, rule 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 (easy rule, rule, you), 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:1 # text = There is an easy rule: if it bites you and you get hurt, it is venomous; if you bite it and you get hurt, it is poisonous. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 rule rule NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 7 if if SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 bites bite VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 get get AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 venomous venomous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 20 if if SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 bite bite VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 get get AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 hurt hurt VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 conj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 poisonous poisonous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 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 | **be** | present | a easy rule | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **bite** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | rule | you | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | | 3 | **hurt** | present · passive | | you | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 4 | **is** | present | rule | | | | | venomous *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **bite** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | rule | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 6 | **hurt** | present · passive | | you | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 7 | **is** | present | rule | | | | | poisonous *property* | tree rules | 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:1`. **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): 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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