--- title: A snake smells with its tongue: it flicks the forked tongue out, cat… — Snakes and lizards · tree and pragmatics description: A snake smells with its tongue: it flicks the forked tongue out, catches scent particles and carries them to a special organ in the roof of its mouth, and the two tips tell it which side the smell is stronger on. Who acts: snake, tread, two tips, smell. 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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 (snake, tread, two tips, smell), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:030-snakes-and-lizards.lesson:1 # text = A snake smells with its tongue: it flicks the forked tongue out, catches scent particles and carries them to a special organ in the roof of its mouth, and the two tips tell it which side the smell is stronger on. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 030-snakes-and-lizards.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 smells smell VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 flicks flick VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 forked fork VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:_ 12 tongue tongue NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 out out ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=16:punct 15 catches catch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 16 scent scent NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 particles particle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=15:conj 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 special special ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 organ organ NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 roof roof NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 35 nummod _ _ 35 tips tip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 36 tell tell VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 iobj _ _ 38 which which DET WDT PronType=Rel 39 det _ _ 39 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 smell smell NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 42 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 43 stronger strong ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 39 acl:relcl _ _ 44 on on ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **smell** | present | a snake | | | | | with tread's tongue | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP.location V»: agent=Location | | 2 | **flick out** | present | tread | the forked tongue | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme | | 3 | **fork** | participle | | | | | | | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **catch** | present | tread *not said here* | scent particles | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent particle=Theme | | 5 | **carry** | present | tread *not said here* | Snakes *= snake* | | a special organ in the roof of tread's mouth | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to organ=Destination | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | the two tips | which side | tread | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient side=Topic | | 7 | **is** | present | the smell | which side *not said here* | | | | strong *property* | 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:030-snakes-and-lizards.lesson:1`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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: [Snakes and lizards, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/30-snakes-and-lizards/0/) - next →: [Snakes and lizards, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/30-snakes-and-lizards/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/30-snakes-and-lizards/)