--- title: Snakes cannot hypnotise: they have no eyelids, so they seem to stare… — Defences: venom in snakes, jellyfish, scorpions… · tree and pragmatics description: Snakes cannot hypnotise: they have no eyelids, so they seem to stare, and a charmer's cobra follows the moving pipe, not the music, because snakes hear sounds in the air poorly and feel vibrations through their jaws. Who acts: Snakes, people, cobra. 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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, people, cobra), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:246-defences-venom-in-snakes-jellyfish-scorpions-and-the-platypus.lesson:16 # text = Snakes cannot hypnotise: they have no eyelids, so they seem to stare, and a charmer's cobra follows the moving pipe, not the music, because snakes hear sounds in the air poorly and feel vibrations through their jaws. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 246-defences-venom-in-snakes-jellyfish-scorpions-and-the-platypus.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 8 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 9 det _ _ 9 eyelids eyelid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 seem seem VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 stare stare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 charmer charmer NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 cobra cobra NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 follows follow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 moving moving NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 pipe pipe NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=25:appos 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 because because SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advcl 34 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 38 poorly poorly ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 feel feel VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=33:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 41 vibrations vibration NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ _ 42 through through ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 jaws jaw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=41:nmod 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **not** **hypnotise** | can | Snakes | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **have** | present | people | no eyelids | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyelid=Patient | | 3 | **seem** | present | people | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 4 | **stare** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **follow** | present | a charmer's cobra | the moving pipe and the music | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Theme | | 6 | **hear** | present | snakes | sounds | | the air | | poorly *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | | 7 | **feel** | present | snakes *not said here* | vibrations | | people's jaws | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent vibration=Theme through jaw=Location | 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:246-defences-venom-in-snakes-jellyfish-scorpions-and-the-platypus.lesson:16`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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