--- title: A snake has no arms or legs, yet it climbs trees and follows a mouse… — Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys · tree and pragmatics description: A snake has no arms or legs, yet it climbs trees and follows a mouse's trail by flicking its forked tongue to pick up smells. Who acts: snake. A sentence of the lesson «Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys/) / 2 # Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys, sentence 2 A snake has no arms or legs, yet it climbs trees and follows a mouse's trail by flicking its forked tongue to pick up smells. **Who acts:** snake · **What happens:** have, climb, follow, flick, fork, pick up · **To what, where:** arms, trees, trail, forked tongue, smells This is a sentence of the lesson «Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys» of the biology 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 (snake), 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:2 # text = A snake has no arms or legs, yet it climbs trees and follows a mouse's trail by flicking its forked tongue to pick up smells. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 5 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 climbs climb VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 follows follow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 trail trail NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 19 by by SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 20 flicking flick VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 advcl _ _ 21 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 22 forked fork VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 23 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 26 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 smells smell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 . . 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 | a snake | no arms or legs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | | 2 | **climb** | present | snake | trees | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme | | 3 | **follow** | present | snake *not said here* | a mouse's trail | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trail=Theme | | 4 | **flick** | gerund | snake *not said here* | snake's forked tongue | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme | | 5 | **fork** | participle | | | | | | | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **pick up** | to-infinitive | snake *not said here* | smells | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=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](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:2`. **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): R8-pos-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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