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title: Some places have venomous creatures: rattlesnakes and bark scorpions… — Snakes, spiders and scorpions · tree and pragmatics
description: Some places have venomous creatures: rattlesnakes and bark scorpions in Arizona and Texas, black widow spiders across much of the USA, brown snakes, redback and funnel-web spiders in Australia, and the adder in Britain. Who acts: places. A sentence of the lesson «Snakes, spiders and scorpions» of th
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# Snakes, spiders and scorpions, sentence 0

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Some places have venomous creatures: rattlesnakes and bark scorpions in Arizona and Texas, black widow spiders across much of the USA, brown snakes, redback and funnel-web spiders in Australia, and the adder in Britain.

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**Who acts:** places · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** venomous creatures

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Snakes, spiders and scorpions» of the everyday 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 (places), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:025-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions.lesson:0
# text = Some places have venomous creatures: rattlesnakes and bark scorpions in Arizona and Texas, black widow spiders across much of the USA, brown snakes, redback and funnel-web spiders in Australia, and the adder in Britain.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 025-snakes-spiders-and-scorpions.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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	venomous	venomous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	rattlesnakes	rattlesnake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	scorpions	scorpion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Arizona	Arizona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Texas	Texas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
19	across	across	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:amod
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	USA	USA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	redback	redback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	funnel	funnel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=33:compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	_
32	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Australia	Australia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	adder	adder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | present | some places | venomous creatures |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Patient |

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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, R7-rel-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.

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

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