The reptile house: snakes, sentence 3

The cobra sways to keep facing the moving flute, which it sees as a threat; a snake would much rather warn you off than waste its venom.

Who acts: cobra, snake · What happens: sway, keep, face, move, see, warn off · To what, where: moving flute, you, venom

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 (cobra, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cobra	det
2	cobra	cobra	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sways	nsubj
3	sways	sway	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 keep	mark
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sways	advcl
6	facing	face	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keep	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 flute	det
8	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 flute	amod
9	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 facing	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sees	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 sees	obj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sees	nsubj
13	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 flute	acl:relcl
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 threat	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 threat	det
16	threat	threat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sees	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 warn	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 snake	det
19	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 warn	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 warn	aux
21	much	much	ADV	_	22 rather	advmod
22	rather	rather	ADV	_	23 warn	advmod
23	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 keep	conj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 warn	obj
25	off	off	ADP	_	23 warn	compound:prt
26	than	than	CCONJ	_	27 waste	cc
27	waste	waste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 warn	conj
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 venom	nmod:poss
29	venom	venom	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 waste	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sways	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	sway	present	the cobra				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	to-infinitive	the cobra not said here				tree rules
3	face	gerund	the cobra not said here	the moving flute			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme flute=Destination
4	move	gerund					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	see	present	cobra	the moving flute		as a threat	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus as threat=Attribute
6	warn off speech: warn	would	a snake		you		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
7	waste	infinitive	a snake not said here	snake's venom			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venom=Patient

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:3.

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, 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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