Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes, sentence 10
The king cobra is the longest venomous snake, growing to about 5 metres; it eats mostly other snakes, and its science name Ophiophagus means «snake-eater».
Who acts: king cobra, venomous snake, skin, science name · What happens: be, grow, eat, mean, name · To what, where: venomous snake, other snakes, snake eater
This is a sentence of the lesson «Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes» 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 (king cobra, venomous snake, skin, science name), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cobra | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cobra | compound |
| 3 | cobra | cobra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 snake | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 snake | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 snake | det |
| 6 | longest | long | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 venomous | advmod |
| 7 | venomous | venomous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 snake | amod |
| 8 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 growing | punct |
| 10 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 snake | acl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 metres | case |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 5 | advmod |
| 13 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 metres | nummod |
| 14 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 growing | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 eats | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 eats | nsubj |
| 17 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 snake | parataxis |
| 18 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 20 snakes | advmod |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 snakes | amod |
| 20 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 eats | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 means | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 means | cc |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 name | nmod:poss |
| 24 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 name | compound |
| 25 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 means | nsubj |
| 26 | Ophiophagus | ophiophagus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 name | appos |
| 27 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 snake | conj |
| 28 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 31 eater | punct |
| 29 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 eater | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 snake | punct |
| 31 | eater | eater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 means | obj |
| 32 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 31 eater | punct |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 snake | 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 | is a | present | the king cobra | the venomous snake | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | gerund | the venomous snake not said here | to 5 metres | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | eat | present | skin | other snakes | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Patient | ||||
| 4 | mean | present | skin's science name | snake eater | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eater=Topic | ||||
| 5 | name | skin | nom name «communication transitive»: 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:322-snakes-to-keep-away-from-cobras-mambas-vipers-and-rattlesnakes.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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