The reptile house: snakes, sentence 9

The king cobra is the longest venomous snake, up to about 5 metres; it spreads its neck ribs into a hood as a warning and eats mostly other snakes.

Who acts: king cobra, cobra · What happens: be, spread, eat · To what, where: longest venomous snake, neck ribs, hood, other snakes

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 (king cobra, cobra), 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	3 cobra	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cobra	compound
3	cobra	cobra	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 snake	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 snake	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 snake	det
6	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 snake	amod
7	venomous	venomous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 snake	amod
8	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 metres	punct
10	up	up	ADP	_	14 metres	case
11	to	to	ADP	_	10 up	fixed
12	about	about	ADV	_	13 5	advmod
13	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 metres	nummod
14	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 snake	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 spreads	punct
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 spreads	nsubj
17	spreads	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 snake	parataxis
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 ribs	nmod:poss
19	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ribs	compound
20	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 spreads	obj
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 hood	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 hood	det
23	hood	hood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spreads	obl
24	as	as	ADP	_	26 warning	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 warning	det
26	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spreads	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 eats	cc
28	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 spreads	conj
29	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	31 snakes	advmod
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 snakes	amod
31	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 eats	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 snake	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the king cobra	the longest venomous snake and 5 metres			tree rules
2	spread	present	cobra	cobra's neck ribs	a hood	as a warning	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rib=Theme into hood=Destination
3	eat	present	cobra not said here	other snakes			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=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:9.

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 ×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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