The reptile house: snakes, sentence 10
Snakes have no outer ears and hear little of sounds in the air, but they feel vibrations through the ground and their jaws.
Who acts: Snakes, sounds · What happens: have, hear, feel · To what, where: outer ears, little, vibrations, ground
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 (Snakes, sounds), 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 | Snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 ears | det |
| 4 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ears | amod |
| 5 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hear | cc |
| 7 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | conj |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hear | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sounds | case |
| 10 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hear | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 air | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 air | det |
| 13 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sounds | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 feel | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 feel | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 feel | nsubj |
| 17 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | conj |
| 18 | vibrations | vibration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 feel | obj |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 ground | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ground | det |
| 21 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 vibrations | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 jaws | cc |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 jaws | nmod:poss |
| 24 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 ground | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | 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 | have | present | Snakes | no outer ears | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hear | present | Snakes not said here | little | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | feel | present | sounds = sound | vibrations | the ground and sounds's jaws | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent vibration=Theme through ground=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:10.
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): R5-strong ×2, 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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