--- title: Cone snails shoot a harpoon-like tooth full of venom into fish, and… — Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions… · tree and pragmatics description: Cone snails shoot a harpoon-like tooth full of venom into fish, and pain medicines have been made from cone snail venom. Who acts: Cone snails. 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 dependen --- [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/10/) [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/) / 10 # Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions and the platypus, sentence 10 Cone snails shoot a harpoon-like tooth full of venom into fish, and pain medicines have been made from cone snail venom. **Who acts:** Cone snails · **What happens:** shoot, make · **To what, where:** like tooth, pain medicines, snail venom 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 (Cone snails), 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:10 # text = Cone snails shoot a harpoon-like tooth full of venom into fish, and pain medicines have been made from cone snail venom. # 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Cone cone NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 snails snail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 shoot shoot VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 5 harpoon harpoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 tooth tooth NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 9 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 venom venom NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 medicines medicine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj:pass _ _ 18 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 cone cone NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:compound 23 snail snail NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 venom venom NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **shoot** | present | Cone snails | a like tooth | | | | into fish | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme into fish=Destination | | 2 | **make** | present · perfect · passive | | pain medicines | | snail venom | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from venom=Material | 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: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): R5-strong ×1, 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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