Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes, sentence 5

Snake charmers' cobras do not dance to music, mambas do not chase horses, and sucking out venom does not help a bitten friend.

Who acts: cobras, mambas, sucking · What happens: not dance, not chase, suck out, not help, bite · To what, where: music, horses, venom, bitten friend

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, mambas, sucking), 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	Snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 charmers	compound
2	charmers	charmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cobras	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 charmers	case
4	cobras	cobra	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dance	nsubj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dance	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 dance	advmod
7	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 music	case
9	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dance	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 chase	punct
11	mambas	mamba	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 chase	nsubj
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 chase	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 chase	advmod
14	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 dance	conj
15	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 chase	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 help	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 help	cc
18	sucking	suck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 help	csubj
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 sucking	compound:prt
20	venom	venom	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sucking	obj
21	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 help	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 help	advmod
23	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 dance	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 friend	det
25	bitten	bite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 friend	amod
26	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 help	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 dance	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	not dance	present · do-support	Snake charmers's cobras			music	vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme to music=Trajectory
2	not chase	present · do-support	mambas	horses			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
3	suck out	gerund		venom			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent venom=Source
4	not help	present · do-support	sucking		a bitten friend		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Beneficiary
5	bite	participle					vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=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:5.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×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.

See the release 0.4.

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