--- title: Pit vipers have small pits on their faces that sense heat, so they c… — Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys · tree and pragmatics description: Pit vipers have small pits on their faces that sense heat, so they can find warm mice and birds in the dark; China has many kinds of snakes, and most try to avoid people. Who acts: Pit vipers, small pits, vipers, China. 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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 (Pit vipers, small pits, vipers, China), 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:12 # text = Pit vipers have small pits on their faces that sense heat, so they can find warm mice and birds in the dark; China has many kinds of snakes, and most try to avoid people. # 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): R5-strong ×1 1 Pit pit NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 vipers viper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 pits pit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 sense sense VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl:relcl 11 heat heat NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 17 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 dark dark NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 27 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 most most PRON JJS _ 34 nsubj _ _ 34 try try VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 avoid avoid VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 37 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | Pit vipers | small pits | | vipers's faces | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pit=Patient | | 2 | **sense** | present | small pits | heat | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer heat=Stimulus | | 3 | **find** | can | vipers *= viper* | warm mice and birds | | the dark | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Topic | | 4 | **have** | present | China | many kinds of snakes | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient | | 5 | **try** | present | most | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **avoid** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | most *not said here* | people | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent people=Location | 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: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): R5-strong ×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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