--- title: A poisonous animal does not bite you; it harms whoever eats it or to… — Defences: poison, warning colours and mimics · tree and pragmatics description: A poisonous animal does not bite you; it harms whoever eats it or touches it, so it is best for it if nobody tries in the first place. Who acts: poisonous animal, animal, whoever, nobody. 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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 (poisonous animal, animal, whoever, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:247-defences-poison-warning-colours-and-mimics.lesson:0 # text = A poisonous animal does not bite you; it harms whoever eats it or touches it, so it is best for it if nobody tries in the first place. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 247-defences-poison-warning-colours-and-mimics.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 poisonous poisonous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 bite bite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 harms harm VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 11 whoever whoever PRON WP PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:conj 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 touches touch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:expl 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 21 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=10:conj 22 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ _ 24 if if SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 26 nsubj _ _ 26 tries try VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 advcl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 30 amod _ _ 30 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **not** **bite** | present · do-support | a poisonous animal | you | | | | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | | 2 | **harm** | present | animal | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **eat** | present | whoever | animal | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 4 | **touch** | present | whoever *not said here* | animal | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | animal | | | | | for it; good *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **try** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | nobody | | | the first place | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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:247-defences-poison-warning-colours-and-mimics.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. **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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