The reptile house: snakes, sentence 0
In the reptile house a big python lies so still you think it is plastic; a snake is cold-blooded, warming itself under a heat lamp instead of burning food, so it can go weeks or even months between meals.
Who acts: big python, you, python, snake · What happens: lie, think, be, warm, burn, go · To what, where: reptile house, snake, heat lamp, food, meals · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The reptile house: snakes» 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 (big python, you, python, snake), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 house | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 house | det |
| 3 | reptile | reptile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 house | compound |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lies | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 python | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 python | amod |
| 7 | python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lies | nsubj |
| 8 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 think | advmod |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 think | advmod |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 think | nsubj |
| 12 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lies | parataxis |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 plastic | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 plastic | cop |
| 15 | plastic | plastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 think | ccomp |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 blooded | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 snake | det |
| 18 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 blooded | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 blooded | cop |
| 20 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 blooded | amod |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 cold | punct |
| 22 | blooded | blooded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 plastic | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 warming | punct |
| 24 | warming | warm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 blooded | advcl |
| 25 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 warming | obj |
| 26 | under | under | ADP | _ | 29 lamp | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 lamp | det |
| 28 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lamp | compound |
| 29 | lamp | lamp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 warming | obl |
| 30 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 32 burning | mark |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 instead | fixed |
| 32 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 warming | advcl |
| 33 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 burning | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 go | punct |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 38 go | advmod |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 go | nsubj |
| 37 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 go | aux |
| 38 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 lies | conj |
| 39 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 go | obl:unmarked |
| 40 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 42 months | cc |
| 41 | even | even | ADV | _ | 42 months | advmod |
| 42 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 weeks | conj |
| 43 | between | between | ADP | _ | 44 meals | case |
| 44 | meals | meal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 go | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | a big python | the reptile house | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | you | still | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | python | plastic property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | a snake | blooded property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | warm | gerund | a snake not said here | snake | a heat lamp | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient | |||
| 6 | burn | gerund | a snake not said here | food | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent food=Theme | ||||
| 7 | go | can | python | meals | week | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between meal=Location |
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:087-reptile-house-snakes.lesson:0.
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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