Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys, sentence 4

Praying mantises wait very still, then shoot out spiky front legs that fold like a pocket knife to grab insects in a fraction of a second; a mantis has six legs and walks on the back four.

Who acts: Praying mantises, spiky front legs, mantis · What happens: pray, wait, shoot out, fold, grab, have · To what, where: spiky front legs, insects, fraction, six legs, back

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 (Praying mantises, spiky front legs, 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	Praying	pray	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 mantises	amod
2	mantises	mantis	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wait	nsubj
3	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 still	advmod
5	still	still	ADV	_	3 wait	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 shoot	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 shoot	advmod
8	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wait	parataxis
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 shoot	compound:prt
10	spiky	spiky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 legs	amod
11	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 legs	amod
12	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 shoot	obj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 fold	nsubj
14	fold	fold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 legs	acl:relcl
15	like	like	ADP	_	18 knife	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 knife	det
17	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 knife	compound
18	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fold	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 grab	mark
20	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 fold	advcl
21	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 grab	obj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 fraction	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 fraction	det
24	fraction	fraction	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 grab	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 second	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 second	det
27	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 fraction	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 has	punct
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 mantis	det
30	mantis	mantis	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 has	nsubj
31	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wait	parataxis
32	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 legs	nummod
33	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 has	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 walks	cc
35	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 has	conj
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 back	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 back	det
38	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 walks	obl
39	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 back	flat
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wait	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	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	Praying mantises			still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	shoot out	infinitive		spiky front legs		then		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme
4	fold	present	spiky front legs				like a pocket knife	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	grab	to-infinitive	spiky front legs not said here	insects	a fraction of a second			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme
6	have	present	a mantis	six legs				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
7	walk	present	a mantis not said here		the back			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory

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:4.

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 ×1, 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.

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