Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys, sentence 9
Snakes have no legs or arms but hundreds of vertebrae and ribs; they move by pushing scales and muscles against the ground, and some climb trees by gripping bark with belly scales.
Who acts: Snakes, legs, some · What happens: have, move, push, climb, grip · To what, where: legs, scales, ground, trees, bark
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, legs, some), 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 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 legs | det |
| 4 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 arms | cc |
| 6 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 legs | conj |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 hundreds | cc |
| 8 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 legs | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 vertebrae | case |
| 10 | vertebrae | vertebra | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hundreds | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ribs | cc |
| 12 | ribs | rib | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 vertebrae | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 move | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 move | nsubj |
| 15 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | parataxis |
| 16 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 17 pushing | mark |
| 17 | pushing | push | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 move | advcl |
| 18 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pushing | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 muscles | cc |
| 20 | muscles | muscle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 scales | conj |
| 21 | against | against | ADP | _ | 23 ground | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 ground | det |
| 23 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pushing | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 climb | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 climb | cc |
| 26 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 climb | nsubj |
| 27 | climb | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 move | conj |
| 28 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 climb | obj |
| 29 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 30 gripping | mark |
| 30 | gripping | grip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 climb | advcl |
| 31 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gripping | obj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 scales | case |
| 33 | belly | belly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 scales | compound |
| 34 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 gripping | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Snakes | no legs or arms but hundreds of vertebrae and ribs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | ||||
| 2 | move | present | legs = leg | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | push | gerund | legs = leg not said here | scales and muscles | the ground | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent scale=Theme against ground=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | climb | present | some | trees | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | ||||
| 5 | grip | gerund | some not said here | bark | with belly scales | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bark=Experiencer with scale=Instrument |
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:9.
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): 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.
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