Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes, sentence 20
Most snakes hunt rats, mice, frogs or insects and keep away from people, and snakes help farmers by eating rats that spoil grain.
Who acts: Most snakes, snakes, rats · What happens: hunt, keep away, help, eat, spoil · To what, where: rats, farmers, grain
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 (Most snakes, snakes, rats), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 snakes | amod |
| 2 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hunt | nsubj |
| 3 | hunt | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hunt | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mice | punct |
| 6 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rats | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 frogs | punct |
| 8 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rats | conj |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 insects | cc |
| 10 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 rats | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 keep | cc |
| 12 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hunt | conj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 keep | advmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 people | case |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 keep | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 help | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 help | cc |
| 18 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 help | nsubj |
| 19 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hunt | conj |
| 20 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 help | obj |
| 21 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 22 eating | mark |
| 22 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 help | advcl |
| 23 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 eating | obj |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 spoil | nsubj |
| 25 | spoil | spoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 rats | acl:relcl |
| 26 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 spoil | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hunt | 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 | hunt | present | Most snakes | rats and mice and frogs or insects | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep away | present | Most snakes not said here | from people; away property | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer from people=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | help | present | snakes | farmers | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farmer=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | eat | gerund | snakes not said here | rats | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=Patient | ||||
| 5 | spoil | present | rats | grain | 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:322-snakes-to-keep-away-from-cobras-mambas-vipers-and-rattlesnakes.lesson:20.
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, 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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