The reptile house: snakes, sentence 4
Snakes are cold-blooded, so they need far less food than mammals; a big python can go months without a meal.
Who acts: Snakes, tips, big python · What happens: be, need, go · To what, where: less food
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, tips, big python), 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 | 5 blooded | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 blooded | cop |
| 3 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blooded | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 cold | punct |
| 5 | blooded | blooded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 need | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 need | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 need | nsubj |
| 9 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 blooded | conj |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 less | advmod |
| 11 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 food | amod |
| 12 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 need | obj |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 mammals | case |
| 14 | mammals | mammal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 food | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 go | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 python | det |
| 17 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 python | amod |
| 18 | python | python | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 go | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 go | aux |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 blooded | parataxis |
| 21 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 go | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | without | without | ADP | _ | 24 meal | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 meal | det |
| 24 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 go | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 blooded | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Snakes | blooded property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | need | present | tips = tip | less food | than mammals | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | can | a big python | month | without a meal | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:4.
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): R7-rel-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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