Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours, sentence 15
A snake's skin is dry and smooth, not slimy; it looks shiny because of its scales.
Who acts: skin · What happens: be, not be, look
This is a sentence of the lesson «Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours» of the everyday 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 (skin), 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 | 4 skin | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 snake | case |
| 4 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dry | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 dry | cop |
| 6 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 smooth | cc |
| 8 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dry | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 slimy | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 slimy | advmod |
| 11 | slimy | slimy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dry | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 looks | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 looks | nsubj |
| 14 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 dry | parataxis |
| 15 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 looks | xcomp |
| 16 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 19 scales | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 because | fixed |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 scales | nmod:poss |
| 19 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 looks | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dry | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a snake's skin | dry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | a snake's skin not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | not be | a snake's skin not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | look | present | skin | because skin's scales; shiny property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:everyday:069-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours.lesson:15.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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