Snakes and lizards, sentence 5

Snakes smell with their forked tongue, which carries scent to a special organ in the roof of the mouth and tells which side a smell is stronger on.

Who acts: Snakes, forked tongue, smell · What happens: smell, fork, carry, tell, be · To what, where: scent, special organ · Speech: someone speaks here

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, forked tongue, smell), 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 smell	nsubj
2	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 tongue	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tongue	nmod:poss
5	forked	fork	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 tongue	amod
6	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smell	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 carries	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 carries	nsubj
9	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tongue	acl:relcl
10	scent	scent	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carries	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 organ	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 organ	det
13	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 organ	amod
14	organ	organ	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carries	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 roof	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 roof	det
17	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 organ	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 mouth	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 mouth	det
20	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 roof	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 tells	cc
22	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 carries	conj
23	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	24 side	det
24	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stronger	obl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 smell	det
26	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stronger	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 stronger	cop
28	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 tells	ccomp
29	on	on	ADV	_	28 stronger	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 smell	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	smell	present	Snakes			with Snakes's forked tongue	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP.location V»: agent=Location
2	fork	participle					vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	carry	present	Snakes's forked tongue	scent	a special organ in the roof of the mouth		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent scent=Theme to organ=Destination
4	tell speech: assert	present	Snakes's forked tongue not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	a smell			which side obl; strong property	tree rules

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:5.

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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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