Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes, sentence 14
Black mambas are grey or olive-brown; the name comes from the inky black inside of the mouth, and their top speed is reported at only about 15 to 20 kilometres an hour.
Who acts: Black mambas, name · What happens: be, come, report · To what, where: inky black mouth, top speed, 15 20 kilometres
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 (Black mambas, 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 | Black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 mambas | amod |
| 2 | mambas | mamba | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grey | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 grey | cop |
| 4 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 brown | cc |
| 6 | olive | olive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 brown | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 olive | punct |
| 8 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grey | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 comes | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 name | det |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 comes | nsubj |
| 12 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 grey | conj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 mouth | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mouth | det |
| 15 | inky | inky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 mouth | amod |
| 16 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 mouth | amod |
| 17 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 20 mouth | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 mouth | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mouth | det |
| 20 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 comes | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 reported | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 reported | cc |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 speed | nmod:poss |
| 24 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 speed | amod |
| 25 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 reported | aux:pass |
| 27 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 comes | conj |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 kilometres | case |
| 29 | only | only | ADV | _ | 31 15 | advmod |
| 30 | about | about | ADV | _ | 31 15 | advmod |
| 31 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 kilometres | nummod |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 20 | case |
| 33 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 kilometres | nummod |
| 34 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 reported | obl |
| 35 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 hour | det |
| 36 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 kilometres | nmod:unmarked |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grey | 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 | present | Black mambas | grey property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Black mambas not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | come | present | the name | the inky black mouth | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from mouth=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | report | present · passive | mambas's top speed | 15 20 kilometres a hour | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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:14.
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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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