Snakes and lizards, sentence 6
Snakes shed their skin in one piece as they grow, starting at the lips, and their eyes turn cloudy blue just before.
Who acts: Snakes, eyes · What happens: shed, grow, start, turn · To what, where: skin, one piece, lips
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, eyes), 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 shed | nsubj |
| 2 | shed | shed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 skin | nmod:poss |
| 4 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shed | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 piece | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 piece | nummod |
| 7 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shed | obl |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 grow | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 grow | nsubj |
| 10 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 shed | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 starting | punct |
| 12 | starting | start | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 grow | advcl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 lips | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lips | det |
| 15 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 starting | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 turn | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 turn | cc |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 turn | nsubj |
| 20 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 shed | conj |
| 21 | cloudy | cloudy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 blue | amod |
| 22 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 turn | xcomp |
| 23 | just | just | ADV | _ | 24 before | advmod |
| 24 | before | before | ADV | _ | 20 turn | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shed | 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 | shed | past | Snakes | Snakes's skin | one piece | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skin=Source | |||
| 2 | grow | present | Snakes = snake | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | start | gerund | Snakes = snake not said here | the lips | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | turn | present | Snakes's eyes | before, blue property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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:6.
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): no change. 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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