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title: Pufferfish, called fugu in Japan, have a very strong poison in their… — Defences: poison, warning colours and mimics · tree and pragmatics
description: Pufferfish, called fugu in Japan, have a very strong poison in their liver and other parts, made by bacteria in their food; only chefs with a special licence may prepare fugu, and farm-raised pufferfish can be poison-free. Who acts: Pufferfish, chefs, farm raised pufferfish. A sentence of the lesson
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# Defences: poison, warning colours and mimics, sentence 8

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Pufferfish, called fugu in Japan, have a very strong poison in their liver and other parts, made by bacteria in their food; only chefs with a special licence may prepare fugu, and farm-raised pufferfish can be poison-free.

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**Who acts:** Pufferfish, chefs, farm raised pufferfish · **What happens:** call, have, make, prepare, raise, be · **To what, where:** fugu, Japan, strong poison, liver, food · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Defences: poison, warning colours and mimics» 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 (Pufferfish, chefs, farm raised pufferfish), 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:8
# text = Pufferfish, called fugu in Japan, have a very strong poison in their liver and other parts, made by bacteria in their food; only chefs with a special licence may prepare fugu, and farm-raised pufferfish can be poison-free.
# 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): R5-strong ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	Pufferfish	Pufferfish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
4	fugu	fugu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	very	very	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	liver	liver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:acl
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	bacteria	bacterium	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:agent	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:obl:agent|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	only	only	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	chefs	chef	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	licence	licence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
35	fugu	fugu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
38	farm	farm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	_
40	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	amod	_	_
41	pufferfish	pufferfish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
42	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
43	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	cop	_	_
44	poison	poison	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
45	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	44	punct	_	_
46	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	_
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | participle | Pufferfish *not said here* | fugu |  | Japan |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | present | Pufferfish | a strong poison |  | Pufferfish's liver and other parts |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poison=Patient |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  | a strong poison *not said here* |  | Pufferfish's food |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **prepare** | may | chefs with a special licence | fugu |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fugu=Patient |
| 5 | **raise** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | can | farm raised pufferfish |  |  |  |  | free *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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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