--- title: A tarantula bite is usually no worse than a bee sting to a person, a… — Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions… · tree and pragmatics description: A tarantula bite is usually no worse than a bee sting to a person, and many American tarantulas defend themselves by flicking tiny itchy hairs from their bottoms. Who acts: tarantula bite, many American tarantulas. A sentence of the lesson «Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions and the pla --- [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/13/) [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/) / 13 # Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions and the platypus, sentence 13 A tarantula bite is usually no worse than a bee sting to a person, and many American tarantulas defend themselves by flicking tiny itchy hairs from their bottoms. **Who acts:** tarantula bite, many American tarantulas · **What happens:** not be, defend, flick · **To what, where:** tarantulas, tiny itchy hairs, bottoms 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 (tarantula bite, many American tarantulas), 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:13 # text = A tarantula bite is usually no worse than a bee sting to a person, and many American tarantulas defend themselves by flicking tiny itchy hairs from their bottoms. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 tarantula tarantula NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 bite bite NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 usually usually ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 6 no no ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:det|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Neg 7 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 8 than than ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 sting sting NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 tarantulas tarantula NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 defend defend VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 21 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 20 obj _ _ 22 by by SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 23 flicking flick VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 24 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 itchy itchy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 hairs hair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 bottoms bottom NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:nmod 30 . . 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 | **not** **is** | present | a tarantula bite | | | | | than a bee sting to a person; bad, usually *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **defend** | present | many American tarantulas | tarantulas *= tarantula* | | | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary | | 3 | **flick** | gerund | many American tarantulas *not said here* | tiny itchy hairs | | tarantulas's bottoms | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent hair=Theme from bottom=Initial\_Location | 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:13`. **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, 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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