The reptile house: snakes, sentence 13
A rattlesnake's rattle is made of hollow rings of hard skin; a ring is added at each shed, several times a year, and old rings break off, so you cannot tell its age by counting them.
Who acts: old rings, you, rattlesnake · What happens: make, add, break off, not tell, count, rattle · To what, where: rattle, ring, shed, age, rings · 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 (old rings, you, rattlesnake), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 rattlesnake | det |
| 2 | rattlesnake | rattlesnake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rattle | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 rattlesnake | case |
| 4 | rattle | rattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | aux:pass |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 rings | case |
| 8 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rings | amod |
| 9 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 skin | case |
| 11 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 skin | amod |
| 12 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rings | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 added | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ring | det |
| 15 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 added | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 added | aux:pass |
| 17 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 made | conj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 shed | case |
| 19 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 shed | det |
| 20 | shed | shed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 added | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 times | punct |
| 22 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 times | amod |
| 23 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 added | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 year | det |
| 25 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 times | nmod:unmarked |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 break | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 added | cc |
| 28 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 rings | amod |
| 29 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 break | nsubj |
| 30 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | conj |
| 31 | off | off | ADP | _ | 30 break | compound:prt |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 tell | punct |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 tell | advmod |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 tell | nsubj |
| 35 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 tell | aux |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 tell | advmod |
| 37 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 made | conj |
| 38 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 age | nmod:poss |
| 39 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 tell | obj |
| 40 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 41 counting | mark |
| 41 | counting | count | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 tell | advcl |
| 42 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 counting | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | 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 | make | present · passive | a rattlesnake's rattle | of hollow rings of hard skin | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | present · passive | a ring | each shed | time | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 3 | break off | present | old rings | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | not tell speech: assert | can | you | rattle's age | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent age=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | count | gerund | you not said here | rings = ring | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 6 | rattle | a rattlesnake | nom rattle «event intransitive»: poss=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:087-reptile-house-snakes.lesson:13.
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): no change. 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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