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title: Snakes cannot hypnotise animals; they have no eyelids, so they stare… — Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, ele… · tree and pragmatics
description: Snakes cannot hypnotise animals; they have no eyelids, so they stare without blinking, and a snake charmer's snake follows the moving pipe, not the music, because snakes cannot hear tunes in the air the way we do. Who acts: Snakes, animals, snake, we. A sentence of the lesson «Myths and cartoons put
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# Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more, sentence 18

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Snakes cannot hypnotise animals; they have no eyelids, so they stare without blinking, and a snake charmer's snake follows the moving pipe, not the music, because snakes cannot hear tunes in the air the way we do.

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**Who acts:** Snakes, animals, snake, we · **What happens:** not hypnotise, have, stare, blink, follow, not hear · **To what, where:** animals, eyelids, moving pipe, tunes, air, way

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Myths and cartoons put right: Tom and Jerry, elephants and mice, ostriches and more» 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 (Snakes, animals, snake, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:191-myths-and-cartoons-put-right.lesson:18
# text = Snakes cannot hypnotise animals; they have no eyelids, so they stare without blinking, and a snake charmer's snake follows the moving pipe, not the music, because snakes cannot hear tunes in the air the way we do.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 191-myths-and-cartoons-put-right.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	hypnotise	hypnotise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	eyelids	eyelid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	stare	stare	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	blinking	blink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	charmer	charmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=14:conj
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	moving	moving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
35	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
38	tunes	tune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl:unmarked	_	_
44	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	acl:relcl	_	_
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hypnotise** | can | Snakes | animals |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present | animals *= animal* | no eyelids |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyelid=Patient |
| 3 | **stare** | present | animals *= animal* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **blink** | gerund | animals *= animal* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **follow** | present | a snake charmer's snake | the moving pipe |  |  |  | the music *obl* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **hear** | can | snakes | tunes |  | the air |  | the way *obl:unmarked* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tune=Stimulus |
| 7 | **do** | present | we | the way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality |

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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.

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**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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-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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