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 | to whom | where | when | 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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