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title: Of about 4,000 kinds of snake, roughly 600 are venomous and only abo… — Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers… · tree and pragmatics
description: Of about 4,000 kinds of snake, roughly 600 are venomous and only about 200 are really dangerous to people. Who acts: 600, 200. A sentence of the lesson «Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the 
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# Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes, sentence 19

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Of about 4,000 kinds of snake, roughly 600 are venomous and only about 200 are really dangerous to people.

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**Who acts:** 600, 200 · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes» 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 (600, 200), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:322-snakes-to-keep-away-from-cobras-mambas-vipers-and-rattlesnakes.lesson:19
# text = Of about 4,000 kinds of snake, roughly 600 are venomous and only about 200 are really dangerous to people.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 322-snakes-to-keep-away-from-cobras-mambas-vipers-and-rattlesnakes.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	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	about	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	4,000	4,000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	600	600	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	venomous	venomous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
15	200	200	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	really	really	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | 600 |  |  |  |  | of 4,000 kinds of snake; venomous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | 200 |  |  |  |  | to people; dangerous *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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**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:322-snakes-to-keep-away-from-cobras-mambas-vipers-and-rattlesnakes.lesson:19`.

**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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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