Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more, sentence 18

Snakes cannot hypnotise animals; they have no eyelids, so they stare without blinking, and a snake charmer's snake follows the moving pipe, not the music, because snakes cannot hear tunes in the air the way we do.

Who acts: Snakes, animals, snake, we · What happens: not hypnotise, have, stare, blink, follow, not hear · To what, where: animals, eyelids, moving pipe, tunes, air, way

This is a sentence of the lesson «Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more» 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, animals, snake, we), 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	4 hypnotise	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hypnotise	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 hypnotise	advmod
4	hypnotise	hypnotise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hypnotise	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 have	nsubj
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hypnotise	parataxis
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 eyelids	det
10	eyelids	eyelid	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 stare	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 stare	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stare	nsubj
14	stare	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hypnotise	conj
15	without	without	SCONJ	_	16 blinking	mark
16	blinking	blink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 stare	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 follows	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 follows	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 charmer	det
20	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 charmer	compound
21	charmer	charmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 snake	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 charmer	case
23	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 follows	nsubj
24	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hypnotise	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 pipe	det
26	moving	moving	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pipe	compound
27	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 follows	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 music	punct
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 music	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 music	det
31	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 follows	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 hear	punct
33	because	because	SCONJ	_	37 hear	mark
34	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 hear	nsubj
35	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 hear	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 hear	advmod
37	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 follows	advcl
38	tunes	tune	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 hear	obj
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 air	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 air	det
41	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 hear	obl
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 way	det
43	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 hear	obl:unmarked
44	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 do	nsubj
45	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 way	acl:relcl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hypnotise	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not hypnotise	can	Snakes	animals			tree rules
2	have	present	animals = animal	no eyelids			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyelid=Patient
3	stare	present	animals = animal				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	blink	gerund	animals = animal not said here				vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	follow	present	a snake charmer's snake	the moving pipe		the music obl	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Theme
6	not hear	can	snakes	tunes	the air	the way obl:unmarked	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tune=Stimulus
7	do	present	we	the way not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality

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:191-myths-and-cartoons-put-right.lesson:18.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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