--- title: Snakes have no legs or arms but hundreds of vertebrae and ribs; they… — Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys · tree and pragmatics description: Snakes have no legs or arms but hundreds of vertebrae and ribs; they move by pushing scales and muscles against the ground, and some climb trees by gripping bark with belly scales. Who acts: Snakes, legs, some. 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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, legs, some), 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:9 # text = Snakes have no legs or arms but hundreds of vertebrae and ribs; they move by pushing scales and muscles against the ground, and some climb trees by gripping bark with belly scales. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×2 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 4 det _ _ 4 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 vertebrae vertebra NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 ribs rib NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 move move VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 16 by by SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 pushing push VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 18 scales scale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 muscles muscle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 21 against against ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 27 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:PronType=Ind 27 climb climb VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 28 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:obl 29 by by SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 30 gripping grip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 31 bark bark NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 belly belly NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 scales scale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ _ 35 . . 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 | **have** | present | Snakes | no legs or arms but hundreds of vertebrae and ribs | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | | 2 | **move** | present | legs *= leg* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **push** | gerund | legs *= leg* *not said here* | scales and muscles | | the ground | | | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent scale=Theme against ground=Trajectory | | 4 | **climb** | present | some | trees | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme | | 5 | **grip** | gerund | some *not said here* | bark | | | | with belly scales | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bark=Experiencer with scale=Instrument | 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:9`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×2. **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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