Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys, sentence 10

Snakes smell with their tongues: the tongue carries bits of smell to a special organ in the roof of the mouth, and its forked tips tell left from right.

Who acts: Snakes, tongue, forked tips · What happens: smell, carry, fork, tell · To what, where: bits, special organ, left, right · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Snakes, tongue, forked tips), 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	Snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 smell	nsubj
2	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 tongues	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tongues	nmod:poss
5	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 smell	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 carries	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tongue	det
8	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carries	nsubj
9	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 smell	parataxis
10	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 carries	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 smell	case
12	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bits	nmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 organ	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 organ	det
15	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 organ	amod
16	organ	organ	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carries	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 roof	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 roof	det
19	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 organ	nmod
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 mouth	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 mouth	det
22	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 roof	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tell	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 tell	cc
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 tips	nmod:poss
26	forked	fork	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 tips	amod
27	tips	tip	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 tell	nsubj
28	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 carries	conj
29	left	leave	NOUN	_	28 tell	obj
30	from	from	ADP	_	31 right	case
31	right	right	NOUN	_	28 tell	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 smell	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	smell	present	Snakes			with legs's tongues	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP.location V»: agent=Location
2	carry	present	the tongue	bits of smell	a special organ in the roof of the mouth		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bit=Theme to organ=Destination
3	fork	participle					vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	present	snake's forked tips	left	right		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent leave=Recipient

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:10.

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.

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