Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys, sentence 1

A real praying mantis waits as still as a twig, then its spiky front legs snap shut on a fly faster than you can blink; it can even turn its head and look you in the eye.

Who acts: real praying mantis, spiky front legs, you, mantis · What happens: pray, wait, snap, blink, turn, look · To what, where: head, you, eye

This is a sentence of the lesson «Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys» 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 (real praying mantis, spiky front legs, you, mantis), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mantis	det
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mantis	amod
3	praying	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 mantis	amod
4	mantis	mantis	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 waits	nsubj
5	waits	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 still	advmod
7	still	still	ADV	_	5 waits	advmod
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 twig	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 twig	det
10	twig	twig	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 waits	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 snap	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 snap	advmod
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 legs	nmod:poss
14	spiky	spiky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 legs	amod
15	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 legs	amod
16	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 snap	nsubj
17	snap	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 waits	parataxis
18	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 snap	xcomp
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 fly	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 fly	det
21	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 snap	obl
22	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 fly	amod
23	than	than	SCONJ	_	26 blink	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 blink	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 blink	aux
26	blink	blink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 faster	advcl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 turn	punct
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 turn	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 turn	aux
30	even	even	ADV	_	31 turn	advmod
31	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 waits	parataxis
32	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 head	nmod:poss
33	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 turn	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 look	cc
35	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 turn	conj
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 look	obj
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 eye	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 eye	det
39	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 look	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 waits	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray	gerund						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	wait	present	a real praying mantis			still	as a twig	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	snap	present	mantis's spiky front legs			then	on a fly; shut property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on fly=Location
4	blink	can	you					vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	turn	can	mantis	mantis's head				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme head=Result
6	look	infinitive	mantis not said here	you	the eye			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Attribute

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, 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:137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys.lesson:1.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, 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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