Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes, sentence 3
A cobra spreads its hood, a rattlesnake buzzes its rattle and a black mamba opens its inky black mouth, all saying «I am dangerous, go away».
Who acts: cobra, rattlesnake, black mamba, all, hood · What happens: spread, buzz, open, say, be, go away · To what, where: hood, rattle, inky black mouth · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (cobra, rattlesnake, black mamba, all), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cobra | det |
| 2 | cobra | cobra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spreads | nsubj |
| 3 | spreads | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hood | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hood | hood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spreads | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 buzzes | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 rattlesnake | det |
| 8 | rattlesnake | rattlesnake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 buzzes | nsubj |
| 9 | buzzes | buzz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 spreads | conj |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 rattle | nmod:poss |
| 11 | rattle | rattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 buzzes | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 opens | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 mamba | det |
| 14 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mamba | amod |
| 15 | mamba | mamba | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 opens | nsubj |
| 16 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 spreads | conj |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 18 | inky | inky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 mouth | amod |
| 19 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 mouth | amod |
| 20 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 opens | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 saying | punct |
| 22 | all | all | PRON | PronType=Tot | 23 saying | nsubj |
| 23 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 opens | advcl |
| 24 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 27 dangerous | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 dangerous | nsubj |
| 26 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 dangerous | cop |
| 27 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 go | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 dangerous | punct |
| 29 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 saying | ccomp |
| 30 | away | away | ADV | _ | 29 go | advmod |
| 31 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 29 go | punct |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spreads | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | present | a cobra | poison's hood | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hood=Theme | ||||
| 2 | buzz | present | a rattlesnake | hood's rattle | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent rattle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | open | present | a black mamba | hood's inky black mouth | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | all | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | all | dangerous property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | go away in a quote | infinitive | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | rattle | hood | nom rattle «event intransitive»: 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:3.
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 ×1, R6-punct-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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