Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes, sentence 18

Cobras hear sounds in the air poorly; a charmer's cobra follows the swaying pipe as if it were a threat, and India banned snake charming in 1972.

Who acts: Cobras, cobra, pipe, India · What happens: hear, follow, sway, be, ban · To what, where: sounds, air, swaying pipe, threat, snake charming, 1972

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 (Cobras, cobra, pipe, India), 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	Cobras	cobra	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hear	nsubj
2	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hear	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 air	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 air	det
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sounds	nmod
7	poorly	poorly	ADV	_	2 hear	advmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 follows	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 charmer	det
10	charmer	charmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cobra	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 charmer	case
12	cobra	cobra	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 follows	nsubj
13	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hear	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 pipe	det
15	swaying	sway	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 pipe	amod
16	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 follows	obj
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 threat	mark
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 threat	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 threat	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 threat	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 threat	det
22	threat	threat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 follows	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 banned	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 banned	cc
25	India	India	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 banned	nsubj
26	banned	ban	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 follows	conj
27	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 charming	compound
28	charming	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 banned	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 1972	case
30	1972	1972	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 banned	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hear	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	present	Cobras	sounds	the air	poorly property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
2	follow	present	a charmer's cobra	the swaying pipe			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Theme
3	sway	gerund					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is a	past	pipe	a threat			tree rules
5	ban	past	India	snake charming	1972		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer charm=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:322-snakes-to-keep-away-from-cobras-mambas-vipers-and-rattlesnakes.lesson:18.

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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