Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys, sentence 2

A snake has no arms or legs, yet it climbs trees and follows a mouse's trail by flicking its forked tongue to pick up smells.

Who acts: snake · What happens: have, climb, follow, flick, fork, pick up · To what, where: arms, trees, trail, forked tongue, smells

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 (snake), 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	2 snake	det
2	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 arms	det
5	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 legs	cc
7	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 arms	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 climbs	punct
9	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	11 climbs	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 climbs	nsubj
11	climbs	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	conj
12	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 climbs	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 follows	cc
14	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 climbs	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 mouse	det
16	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 trail	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 mouse	case
18	trail	trail	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 follows	obj
19	by	by	SCONJ	_	20 flicking	mark
20	flicking	flick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 follows	advcl
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 tongue	nmod:poss
22	forked	fork	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 tongue	amod
23	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flicking	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 pick	mark
25	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 flicking	advcl
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 pick	compound:prt
27	smells	smell	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 pick	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	present	a snake	no arms or legs	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
2	climb	present	snake	trees	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
3	follow	present	snake not said here	a mouse's trail	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Theme
4	flick	gerund	snake not said here	snake's forked tongue	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme
5	fork	participle			vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	pick up	to-infinitive	snake not said here	smells	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Topic

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:2.

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): R8-pos-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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