--- title: The sidewinder snake moves sideways and touches the hot sand at only… — Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking… · tree and pragmatics description: The sidewinder snake moves sideways and touches the hot sand at only two points, leaving J-shaped tracks. Who acts: sidewinder snake. A sentence of the lesson «Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its de --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants/7/) [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/) / [Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fo…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants/) / 7 # Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants, sentence 7 The sidewinder snake moves sideways and touches the hot sand at only two points, leaving J-shaped tracks. **Who acts:** sidewinder snake · **What happens:** move, touch, leave, shape · **To what, where:** hot sand, two points, shaped tracks This is a sentence of the lesson «Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants» 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 (sidewinder snake), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants.lesson:7 # text = The sidewinder snake moves sideways and touches the hot sand at only two points, leaving J-shaped tracks. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants.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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 sidewinder sidewinder NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 sideways sideways ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 touches touch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 only only ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 points point NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 leaving leave VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advcl 17 J J PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 19 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 20 tracks track NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 21 . . 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 | **move** | present | the sidewinder snake | | | | | sideways *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **touch** | present | the sidewinder snake *not said here* | the hot sand | | two points | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sand=Co-Theme | | 3 | **leave** | gerund | the sidewinder snake *not said here* | shaped tracks | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=Theme | | 4 | **shape** | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | 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:182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants.lesson:7`. **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, 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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