Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru, sentence 14

Some harmless snakes copy the red, black and yellow bands of the deadly coral snake, so predators avoid both, and it is not safe to guess which is which.

Who acts: harmless snakes, predators · What happens: copy, avoid, not be, guess, be · To what, where: red bands, both · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru» 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 (harmless snakes, predators), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 snakes	det
2	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 snakes	amod
3	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 copy	nsubj
4	copy	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bands	det
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bands	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 black	punct
8	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 red	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 yellow	cc
10	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 black	conj
11	bands	band	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 copy	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 snake	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 snake	det
14	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 snake	amod
15	coral	coral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 snake	amod
16	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bands	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 avoid	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 avoid	advmod
19	predators	predator	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 avoid	nsubj
20	avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 copy	conj
21	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	20 avoid	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 safe	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 safe	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 safe	expl
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 safe	cop
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 safe	advmod
27	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 avoid	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 guess	mark
29	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 safe	csubj
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 which	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 which	cop
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 guess	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 copy	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	copy	present	some harmless snakes	the red bands of the deadly coral snake		vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=Theme
2	avoid	present	predators	both		vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent both=Location
3	not is	present	predators not said here		safe property	tree rules
4	guess	to-infinitive				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present				tree rules

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:158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales.lesson:14.

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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×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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