--- title: Snakes have no outside ears but feel vibrations through their jaw bo… — Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys · tree and pragmatics description: Snakes have no outside ears but feel vibrations through their jaw bones; they have no eyelids, so they stare without blinking, but they cannot hypnotise anyone. Who acts: Snakes, vibrations. 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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, vibrations), 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:11 # text = Snakes have no outside ears but feel vibrations through their jaw bones; they have no eyelids, so they stare without blinking, but they cannot hypnotise anyone. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1 1 Snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 4 outside outside ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 6 but but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 vibrations vibration NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 9 through through ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 11 jaw jaw NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 16 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 17 det _ _ 17 eyelids eyelid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 stare stare VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 22 without without SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 23 blinking blink VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 hypnotise hypnotise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=21:conj 30 anyone anyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 29 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **have** | present | Snakes | no outside ears | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient | | 2 | **feel** | present | Snakes *not said here* | vibrations | | vibrations's jaw bones | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent vibration=Theme through bone=Location | | 3 | **have** | present | vibrations *= vibration* | no eyelids | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyelid=Patient | | 4 | **stare** | present | vibrations *= vibration* | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **blink** | gerund | vibrations *= vibration* *not said here* | | | | | | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **not** **hypnotise** | can | vibrations *= vibration* | anyone | | | | | 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](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:11`. **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. **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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