--- title: Snakes smell with their tongues: the tongue carries bits of smell to… — Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys · tree and pragmatics description: Snakes smell with their tongues: the tongue carries bits of smell to a special organ in the roof of the mouth, and its forked tips tell left from right. Who acts: Snakes, tongue, forked tips. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snakes, tongue, forked tips), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys.lesson:10 # text = Snakes smell with their tongues: the tongue carries bits of smell to a special organ in the roof of the mouth, and its forked tips tell left from right. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys.lesson # annotation = 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 1 Snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 smell smell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 tongues tongue NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 10 bits bit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 organ organ NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 forked fork VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 amod _ _ 27 tips tip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 29 left leave NOUN NN _ 28 obj _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 right right NOUN NN _ 28 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **smell** | present | Snakes | | | | | with legs's tongues | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP.location V»: agent=Location | | 2 | **carry** | present | the tongue | bits of smell | | a special organ in the roof of the mouth | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bit=Theme to organ=Destination | | 3 | **fork** | participle | | | | | | | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | snake's forked tips | left | | right | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent leave=Recipient | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys.lesson:10`. **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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