Snakes and lizards, sentence 10
Pit vipers such as rattlesnakes have heat-sensing pits on their faces that find warm-blooded prey in total darkness.
Who acts: Pit vipers, sensing pits · What happens: have, sense, find · To what, where: sensing pits, faces, blooded prey, total darkness
This is a sentence of the lesson «Snakes and lizards» 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 (Pit vipers, sensing pits), 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 | Pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 vipers | compound |
| 2 | vipers | viper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | nsubj |
| 3 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 5 rattlesnakes | case |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 3 such | fixed |
| 5 | rattlesnakes | rattlesnake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 vipers | nmod |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sensing | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 heat | punct |
| 9 | sensing | sense | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 pits | amod |
| 10 | pits | pit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 have | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 faces | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 faces | nmod:poss |
| 13 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pits | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 find | nsubj |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 pits | acl:relcl |
| 16 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 blooded | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 warm | punct |
| 18 | blooded | blooded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 prey | amod |
| 19 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 find | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 darkness | case |
| 21 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 darkness | amod |
| 22 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 find | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Pit vipers such rattlesnakes | sensing pits | vipers's faces | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pit=Patient | |||
| 2 | sense | gerund | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | find | present | sensing pits | blooded prey | total darkness | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Topic |
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:030-snakes-and-lizards.lesson:10.
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. 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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