Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions and the platypus, sentence 16

Snakes cannot hypnotise: they have no eyelids, so they seem to stare, and a charmer's cobra follows the moving pipe, not the music, because snakes hear sounds in the air poorly and feel vibrations through their jaws.

Who acts: Snakes, people, cobra · What happens: not hypnotise, have, seem, stare, follow, hear · To what, where: eyelids, moving pipe, sounds, air, vibrations, jaws

This is a sentence of the lesson «Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions and the platypus» 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, people, cobra), 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	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hypnotise	parataxis
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 eyelids	det
9	eyelids	eyelid	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 seem	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 seem	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 seem	nsubj
13	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hypnotise	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 stare	mark
15	stare	stare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 seem	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 follows	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 follows	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 charmer	det
19	charmer	charmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cobra	nmod:poss
20	's	's	PART	_	19 charmer	case
21	cobra	cobra	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 follows	nsubj
22	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hypnotise	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 pipe	det
24	moving	moving	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pipe	compound
25	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 follows	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 music	punct
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 music	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 music	det
29	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pipe	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 hear	punct
31	because	because	SCONJ	_	33 hear	mark
32	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 hear	nsubj
33	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 follows	advcl
34	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 hear	obj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 air	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 air	det
37	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hear	obl
38	poorly	poorly	ADV	_	33 hear	advmod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 feel	cc
40	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 hear	conj
41	vibrations	vibration	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 feel	obj
42	through	through	ADP	_	44 jaws	case
43	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 jaws	nmod:poss
44	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 feel	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hypnotise	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not hypnotise	can	Snakes				tree rules
2	have	present	people	no eyelids			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyelid=Patient
3	seem	present	people				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	stare	to-infinitive	people not said here				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	follow	present	a charmer's cobra	the moving pipe and the music			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Theme
6	hear	present	snakes	sounds	the air	poorly property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
7	feel	present	snakes not said here	vibrations	people's jaws		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent vibration=Theme through jaw=Location

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:246-defences-venom-in-snakes-jellyfish-scorpions-and-the-platypus.lesson:16.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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