--- title: Some harmless snakes copy the red, black and yellow bands of the dea… — Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans… · tree and pragmatics description: Some harmless snakes copy the red, black and yellow bands of the deadly coral snake, so predators avoid both, and it is not safe to guess which is which. Who acts: harmless snakes, predators. 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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 (harmless snakes, predators), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales.lesson:14 # text = Some harmless snakes copy the red, black and yellow bands of the deadly coral snake, so predators avoid both, and it is not safe to guess which is which. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales.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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 det _ _ 2 harmless harmless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 copy copy VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:det 6 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=11:punct 8 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:amod 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 conj _ _ 11 bands band NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:conj 12 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 14 deadly deadly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 coral coral ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 predators predator NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 avoid avoid VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 21 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 20 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 expl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:nsubj 25 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 conj _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 guess guess VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 csubj _ _ 30 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 32 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 29 ccomp _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **copy** | present | some harmless snakes | the red bands of the deadly coral snake | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=Theme | | 2 | **avoid** | present | predators | both | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent both=Location | | 3 | **not** **is** | present | predators *not said here* | | | | | safe *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **guess** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | | | | | | | 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:158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales.lesson:14`. **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 ×4, R6-punct-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Amazon giants and tall tales: anaconda…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/13/) - next →: [Amazon giants and tall tales: anaconda…, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/)