Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell, sentence 12

Snakes smell by flicking their tongue to pick up scents from the air.

Who acts: Snakes · What happens: smell, flick, pick up · To what, where: tongue, scents, air

This is a sentence of the lesson «Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell» of the world 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), 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	2 smell	nsubj
2	smell	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	SCONJ	_	4 flicking	mark
4	flicking	flick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 smell	advcl
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tongue	nmod:poss
6	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flicking	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 pick	mark
8	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 flicking	advcl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 pick	compound:prt
10	scents	scent	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 pick	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 air	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 air	det
13	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 scents	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 smell	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	smell	present	Snakes			vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP.location V»: agent=Location
2	flick	gerund	Snakes not said here	Snakes's tongue		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme
3	pick up	to-infinitive	Snakes not said here	scents	the air	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scent=Topic

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:world:079-senses-of-animals.lesson:12.

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): no change. 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.

See the release 0.4.

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