The reptile house: snakes, sentence 12

Some harmless snakes, like the milk snake, look like the venomous coral snake, which is called mimicry; colour rhymes are not reliable, so never touch a wild snake.

Who acts: harmless snakes, colour rhymes · What happens: look, call, not be, not touch · To what, where: venomous coral snake, wild snake · 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 (harmless snakes, colour rhymes), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 snakes	det
2	harmless	harmless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 snakes	amod
3	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 look	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 look	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	8 snake	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 snake	det
7	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 snake	compound
8	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 look	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 snake	punct
10	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	like	like	ADP	_	15 snake	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 snake	det
13	venomous	venomous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 snake	amod
14	coral	coral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 snake	amod
15	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 look	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 mimicry	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 called	nsubj:pass
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 called	aux:pass
19	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 snake	acl:relcl
20	mimicry	mimicry	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 called	xcomp
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 reliable	punct
22	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rhymes	compound
23	rhymes	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 reliable	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 reliable	cop
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 reliable	advmod
26	reliable	reliable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 look	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 touch	punct
28	so	so	ADV	_	30 touch	advmod
29	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 touch	advmod
30	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 look	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 snake	det
32	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 snake	amod
33	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 touch	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 look	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	present	some harmless snakes		like the milk snake; like the venomous coral snake	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	call	present · passive		the venomous coral snake		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	not is	present	colour rhymes		reliable property	tree rules
4	not touch	infinitive	some harmless snakes not said here	a wild snake		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme snake=Co-Theme

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:12.

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): 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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