Snakes and lizards, sentence 12

Snakes push their bodies against bumps on the ground to move, and pythons still have tiny leg bones left from ancestors with legs.

Who acts: Snakes, pythons · What happens: push, move, have, leave · To what, where: bodies, bumps, tiny leg bones, ancestors

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 (Snakes, pythons), 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 push	nsubj
2	push	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 bodies	nmod:poss
4	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 push	obj
5	against	against	ADP	_	6 bumps	case
6	bumps	bump	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 push	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 ground	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ground	det
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bumps	nmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 move	mark
11	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 push	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 have	cc
14	pythons	python	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 have	nsubj
15	still	still	ADV	_	16 have	advmod
16	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 push	conj
17	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bones	amod
18	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bones	compound
19	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 have	obj
20	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 bones	acl
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 ancestors	case
22	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 left	obl
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 legs	case
24	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 left	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 push	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	present	Snakes	Snakes's bodies	bumps on the ground			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent body=Theme against bump=Trajectory
2	move	to-infinitive	Snakes not said here					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	have	present	pythons	tiny leg bones		still		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
4	leave	participle		tiny leg bones not said here	ancestors		with legs	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from ancestor=Initial_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:030-snakes-and-lizards.lesson:12.

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 ×3. 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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