Snakes to keep away from: cobras, mambas, vipers and rattlesnakes, sentence 8
Of about 4,000 kinds of snake, only about 200 are really dangerous to people, and many snakes help farmers by eating rats.
Who acts: 200, many snakes · What happens: be, help, eat · To what, where: farmers, rats
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 (200, many snakes), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 4 kinds | case |
| 2 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 4,000 | advmod |
| 3 | 4,000 | 4,000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 kinds | nummod |
| 4 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dangerous | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 snake | case |
| 6 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kinds | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 200 | punct |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 200 | advmod |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 200 | advmod |
| 10 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 dangerous | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 dangerous | cop |
| 12 | really | really | ADV | _ | 13 dangerous | advmod |
| 13 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 people | case |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dangerous | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 help | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 help | cc |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 snakes | amod |
| 19 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 help | nsubj |
| 20 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 dangerous | conj |
| 21 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 help | obj |
| 22 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 23 eating | mark |
| 23 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 help | advcl |
| 24 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 eating | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 dangerous | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | 200 | of 4,000 kinds of snake; to people; dangerous property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | help | present | many snakes | farmers | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farmer=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | eat | gerund | many snakes not said here | rats | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rat=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:8.
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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