The reptile house: snakes, sentence 5
A snake smells with its forked tongue, touching scent to a special organ in the roof of its mouth; the tongue is harmless.
Who acts: snake, forked tongue, tongue · What happens: smell, fork, touch, be · To what, where: scent
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, forked tongue, tongue), 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 snake | det |
| 2 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smells | nsubj |
| 3 | smells | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 tongue | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 6 | forked | fork | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 tongue | amod |
| 7 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smells | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 touching | punct |
| 9 | touching | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 tongue | acl |
| 10 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 touching | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 organ | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 organ | det |
| 13 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 organ | amod |
| 14 | organ | organ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 touching | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 roof | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 roof | det |
| 17 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 organ | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 mouth | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 20 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 roof | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 harmless | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 tongue | det |
| 23 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 harmless | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 harmless | cop |
| 25 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 smells | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 smells | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smell | present | a snake | with python's forked tongue | vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP.location V»: agent=Location | ||||
| 2 | fork | participle | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | touch | gerund | python's forked tongue not said here | scent | to a special organ in the roof of python's mouth | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme scent=Co-Theme | |||
| 4 | is | present | the tongue | harmless property | tree rules |
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:5.
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, 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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