The reptile house: snakes, sentence 2

In cartoons a snake charmer plays a flute and the cobra dances to the tune, and in The Jungle Book Kaa hypnotises with spinning eyes, but snakes have no outer ears and hear little of the music, and they have no eyelids, so their stare only looks spooky.

Who acts: snake charmer, cobra, Kaa, snakes, ears, stare · What happens: play, dance, hypnotise, spin, have, hear · To what, where: flute, cartoons, tune, Jungle Book, outer ears, little

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 (snake charmer, cobra, Kaa, 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 cartoons	case
2	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 plays	obl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 charmer	det
4	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 charmer	compound
5	charmer	charmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plays	nsubj
6	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 flute	det
8	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 plays	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dances	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cobra	det
11	cobra	cobra	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dances	nsubj
12	dances	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 plays	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 tune	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tune	det
15	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dances	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hypnotises	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 hypnotises	cc
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 Book	case
19	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Book	det
20	Jungle	Jungle	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Book	compound
21	Book	Book	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 hypnotises	obl
22	Kaa	Kaa	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 hypnotises	nsubj
23	hypnotises	hypnotise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 plays	conj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 eyes	case
25	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 eyes	amod
26	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 hypnotises	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 have	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 have	cc
29	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 have	nsubj
30	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 plays	conj
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 ears	det
32	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 ears	amod
33	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 have	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 hear	cc
35	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 have	conj
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 hear	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 music	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 music	det
39	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 little	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 have	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 have	cc
42	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 have	nsubj
43	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 plays	conj
44	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	45 eyelids	det
45	eyelids	eyelid	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 have	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 looks	punct
47	so	so	ADV	_	51 looks	advmod
48	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 stare	nmod:poss
49	stare	stare	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 looks	nsubj
50	only	only	ADV	_	51 looks	advmod
51	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 plays	conj
52	spooky	spooky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 looks	xcomp
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 plays	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	play	present	a snake charmer	a flute	cartoons		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flute=Theme
2	dance	present	the cobra		the tune		vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme to tune=Trajectory
3	hypnotise	present	Kaa		the Jungle Book	with spinning eyes	tree rules
4	spin	gerund					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	have	present	snakes	no outer ears			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient
6	hear	present	snakes not said here	little of the music			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer little=Stimulus
7	have	present	ears = ear	no eyelids			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyelid=Patient
8	look	present	ears's stare			spooky property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
9	stare		ears = ear				nom stare «act 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:2.

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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×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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