Snakes and lizards, sentence 3

In The Jungle Book, Kaa the python hypnotises people with spinning eyes; real snakes can't hypnotise anyone, they just have no eyelids, so their stare never blinks.

Who acts: Kaa, real snakes, Snakes, stare · What happens: hypnotise, spin, not hypnotise, have, not blink, stare · To what, where: people, Jungle Book, anyone, eyelids

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 (Kaa, real snakes, Snakes, stare), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 Book	case
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Book	det
3	Jungle	Jungle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Book	compound
4	Book	Book	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 hypnotises	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Kaa	punct
6	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 hypnotises	nsubj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 python	det
8	python	python	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Kaa	appos
9	hypnotises	hypnotise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hypnotises	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 eyes	case
12	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 eyes	amod
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 people	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 hypnotise	punct
15	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 snakes	amod
16	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hypnotise	nsubj
17	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 hypnotise	aux
18	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 hypnotise	advmod
19	hypnotise	hypnotise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 hypnotises	parataxis
20	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 hypnotise	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 have	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 have	nsubj
23	just	just	ADV	_	24 have	advmod
24	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 hypnotise	parataxis
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 eyelids	det
26	eyelids	eyelid	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 have	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 stare	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	30 stare	advmod
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 stare	nmod:poss
30	stare	stare	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 blinks	nsubj
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	32 blinks	advmod
32	blinks	blink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hypnotises	parataxis
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 hypnotises	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	hypnotise	present	Kaa	people	the Jungle Book	with spinning eyes	tree rules
2	spin	gerund					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	not hypnotise	can	real snakes	anyone			tree rules
4	have	present	Snakes = snake	no eyelids			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyelid=Patient
5	not blink	present	Snakes's stare				vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	stare		Snakes = snake				nom stare «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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:3.

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): 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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